Hug an OSS Developer or just don't be a dick

Re:Hug an OSS Developer or just don't be a dick by jamesu on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @09:51AM (#3295169)

To me an open source project is 1% about the code and 99% about the community. Without a good community, you might as well not bother open sourcing the code.

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Re:Hug an OSS Developer or just don't be a dick by gbog on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @11:00AM (#3295416)

I don't know how far this is true. I just checked Vim, which for me seem to be written mostly by one person (but I may be wrong here). Anyway, I'm quite sure there are some useful open source project which don't have a big community of developers. FSlint is one I use sometime.

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Re:Hug an OSS Developer or just don't be a dick by huntern on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @10:51AM (#3295387)

Agreed. That's a huge attraction for me as well, the people around it, working with them, and seeing the product(s) take shape.

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