Re:Responsible Open Source Code Parenting
by nostrademons on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @10:48PM
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You don't know what's an experiment and what's a massively successful library until you release it. JQuery was initially intended to be the experiment; presumably he had other projects he was working on at the time that were supposed to be his "real" work.
There're a bunch of counterexamples to the "all projects that are making an impact are doing so because they are actively backed and developed." Markdown is one obvious one. The Internet Explorer team was disbanded from 2002-2005, even though it was the most popular browser on the market. Several Google projects that are used by millions of people a day are completely de-staffed.
And there are many more projects that are actively backed and developed and yet are not making an impact. We'd be much better off if their developers quit what they were doing and found something else to do.
There're a bunch of counterexamples to the "all projects that are making an impact are doing so because they are actively backed and developed." Markdown is one obvious one. The Internet Explorer team was disbanded from 2002-2005, even though it was the most popular browser on the market. Several Google projects that are used by millions of people a day are completely de-staffed.
And there are many more projects that are actively backed and developed and yet are not making an impact. We'd be much better off if their developers quit what they were doing and found something else to do.