OpenEuphoria

Re: Source changes

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx?de> Jul 03, 2007
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Derek Parnell wrote:

> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > 
> > Derek Parnell wrote:
> > 
> > > Juergen Luethje wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I think it would be best to send this library to the User Contributions
> > > > page.
> > > > After some months, when people use the code and like the code, and have
> > > > given
> > > > some micro bucks to it, it could be considered to put this lib into the
> > > > standard release of Euphoria.
> > > 
> > > Fair enough, but I'm not going to do that. I'll submit it for peer review
> > > and
> > > after a few corrections/improvements I'll submit it to SourceForge and let
> > > Robert
> > > make the call.
> > 
> > I naively had assumed that "Open Source" means, besides other things, that
> > such a decision would be made democratically by all members of the Euphoria
> > community.
> 
> What part of "peer review" and "SourceForge" made you think that this library
> was not open source? 
> 
> And since when has anything in Euphoria been democratically elected. Now if
> this library was such that it was being forced on people; that they had to use
> it, then may a 'popular' vote might be needed. But no one is forcing this
> library
> on anyone. In fact, the only voting that will happen, and its very effective
> voting, is whether or not people choose to use the library.

Is it possible that you forgot some smileys?
I think when I'll reply seriously to this post, you might tell me that
I don't have a good sense of humor, no? 

Regards,
   Juergen