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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by sz4kerto on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @07:26AM (#6051107)
That's a very hypocritical approach I believe. A few years' ago our ex-prime minister said that if you don't like what's going on in the country, you're free to leave. It doesn't work like that.
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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by brk on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @07:35AM (#6051159)
Not good comparison. A country is essentially a fixed physical plot of land, with people, resources, climate, etc. If you leave a country you have to leave all of those things (and more) behind.

Forking code essentially gives you the ability to take everything, and then move it in your own new direction. You leave behind only the parts you thought were "bad" or unprofessional or whatever.

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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by shawabawa3 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @08:13AM (#6051309)
> Not good comparison. A country is essentially a fixed physical plot of land, with people, resources, climate, etc. If you leave a country you have to leave all of those things (and more) behind.

Yes it is. Saying you can just fork it is like saying you can just move yourself and all your family and friends to another country.

You might be able to move yourself but moving any significant amount of developers is in practise impossible.

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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by 3am on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @11:46AM (#6052638)
After you fork, you know you can just pull from the original project? That's why they call it the upstream.

Perhaps you're saying that you can't take the community with you? That doesn't seem like a reasonable expectation. You can fork, and you can continue to pull from upstream, but you can't force people to use it.

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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by phryk on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @08:50AM (#6051477)
You might be able to move yourself but moving any significant amount of developers is in practise impossible.

So it's better to force that significant amount of developers to do your bidding? That sounds just a just a weee bit unreasonable, IMHO.

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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by criley2 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @08:53AM (#6051495)
Right but the analogy breaks down in the sense that: Linus is responsible for the developers who won't move. They're his team.

You're basically saying that you want the fruits of Linus's labor without Linus there to do it?

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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by vinceguidry on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:06AM (#6051565)
A better comparison is "If you don't like your job, get another one." A few people will be poised to exercise such a strategy, most won't.
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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by 67726e on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @07:35AM (#6051163)
That's a bit of a an apples-to-oranges comparison. An open-source project isn't exactly a democratic government. It's not about protecting the people, it's about getting shit done and getting it done right.
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