Johansson Olle E wrote:
Forking might be a good thing and in some cases, the only way forward for a developer or a group of developers. There's a reason why the open source licenses actually gives users and developers the right to fork. And one have to realize, you can't work with everyone every time. In Open Source, you don't pick your community and learn to work with almost every strange type there is. In some cases, chemistry just doesn't work. Often is more about people, than about code, features or actual result.
There is essentially two types of forks. One, what could be called the OpenBSD-type, essentially is a relief to everyone. People that can't work together split up and everyone is happier afterwards. Both sides will insist that the other is a bunch of morons, but that is how it is.
Then there is the EGCS-type. A group of developers believes the old project to be to slow and stuck in their way and leaves. They proof their point and after some time, everyone agrees that they had valid points and a merge happens.
I truly believe that The Original Fork was of the latter type. I think that we who stuck with SER learned our lessons. We still all have our reasons why we stayed with SER and I think it important that our reasons are heard and taken seriously. But in the end the situation is that the community approach taken by OpenSER is more successful in terms of integrating people and encouraging to contribute their time and effort.
Let's move forward and bring back the fun to these projects and create great products!
One second, I need to go fill my glass again ... There we are ... I toast to that!
Best regards, Mar"Hmm, Merlot"tin