[mythtv-users] Zap2It fiasco - what can we as users do?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Jun 26 17:28:03 UTC 2007


On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 10:09:32AM -0500, Andrew Close wrote:
>> the Myth community, but anyone interested in program data.  we're
>> possibly witnessing the birth of a completely new OSS product!
>> exciting stuff  :)
>
> And, to quote Heinlein, no birth happens without a little blood and  
> pain.

I also can't think of any project that has been destroyed by a code  
fork, even though forks are always accompanied by Warnings Of  
Impending Doom from the cheap seats.  Forks sometimes create bad  
feelings, but rarely bad code; often one development path becomes  
decidedly better than the software was at the fork point, and the  
other withers on the vine.  Sometimes they *both* become superior,  
but in different ways.  And more often than not they eventually merge  
together again.

I'm not saying a code fork is likely in MythTV, I'm just saying that  
forks are a way of life for OSS, and they're nothing to be afraid of.





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