jurianbotha
February 8th, 2007, 06:45 AM
I'm getting very disorientated looking at the various open source options available to me. Operating Systems, Development Environments and so forth...
So my first thought when choosing one was: "I'll take the one with the largest community base!" But determining which one this is, is a near impossible task when it comes to some of the bigger players.
Looking around I also start to see many similar offers all round, and I get to wondering: "Why don't these people just get together and make a super community?" I guess this would just have to happen naturally over a period of time, but what worries me is that I don't ever hear about these kind of merges. (I'll keep an ear to the ground from now on ;) )
Shouldn't merging open source projects and communities be encouraged?
So my first thought when choosing one was: "I'll take the one with the largest community base!" But determining which one this is, is a near impossible task when it comes to some of the bigger players.
Looking around I also start to see many similar offers all round, and I get to wondering: "Why don't these people just get together and make a super community?" I guess this would just have to happen naturally over a period of time, but what worries me is that I don't ever hear about these kind of merges. (I'll keep an ear to the ground from now on ;) )
Shouldn't merging open source projects and communities be encouraged?