[Devel] Re: [Serdev] Re: [Serusers] OpenSER release

[Marc Haisenko]

On Wednesday 15 June 2005 10:37, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> OSS proved that some time diversity is a very good solution. Look at the
> number of the linux distributions. All contribute to kernel development
> and other software. They have same roots and backbone, but there are
> differences that make people to choose only one. I chose Debian because
> it is very open for contributions and develops faster. This happened
> after RedHat chose to close its public releases. I could have gone to
> fedora, but I found debian more appropriate for what I need.
>
>
> Daniel

The canonical example is the GCC project (I hope I remember this correctly): 
when the GCC core folks where too slow and frustration of the contributors 
grew the egcs fork was done. A while the two developed in parallel, with egcs 
getting more popular because of more features, and finally the two merged 
again.

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Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko at webport.de