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Late in open sourcing
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Canonical to open-source Launchpad. 5 years was a long enough monopolization I suppose. So much for believing in the benefits of open source.
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απόγευμα, Παρασκευή 12 Δεκεμβερίου 2008
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Soyuz isn’t open!
The LP component that BUILDS Ubuntu..that deals with mirrors… release engineering as we understand it… is still going to be CLOSED
Pathetic
-jef
I think it’s dumb to announce you’re going to open source something before you do. Open source it and then tell us about it. Good intentions aren’t worth so much…
It’s the end result that ultimately matters. Intentions are approximately as useful as a quick puff of hot air, but before we condemn the move to opensource Launchpad, let’s wait and see what actually happens :-)
The more the open up the better. I think LP is pretty slick, but I won’t put any of my own projects there since it’s been closed. They announced July 21, 2009 …. let’s see (and hope) they can do that.
I do agree with Máirín … as much as I’m happy to hear they set a date to open up LP, it’s not worth much until it IS open. Until then I plan to continue my same method of working with LP … if there is someone else’s project up there I’ll commit patches, but I won’t put anything of mine there.
It is a matter of fact that building a complex platform like Launchpad may take years until is polished and even possible to deploy in a variety of environments. In the mean while, a “customized” (see a pile of hacks) version can totally cover the needs of a single vendor. Between releasing a crappy and undocumented piece of code that “just gets the job done” and “release early, release often” strategy there is a question of elegance, personal taste and responsibility.
On the bright side, at least Canonical has plans to Open Source one of their greatest assets, whereas RedHat has a few technologies in RHEL that has no intention to give away… So much for Fedora’s sponsor openness.