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Introduction To Inkscape And Its Future
WarriorC writes "Bryce Harrington, Inkscape's founder, wrote an article introducing his brainchild and where its development is heading (see: Illustrator-killer). Some screenshots of the latest CVS version are included." It's also a nice glimpse into an "unorganized" but nonetheless successful open source process.
No I didn't miss anything, I mentioned that they checked it was indeed PD.
Which raises another question. Legally speaking, would an email from an anonymous guy on the internet hold up in court as proof that that person wrote it?
Say, for instance, SCO managed to produce a significant amount of code that existed in the linux kernel - an obvious copy. Would linux be able to pull out an old archived email from "BigDaddy23@hotmail.com" that says "I wrote all this, honest injun!"? And if he doesn't even have that, could every kernel hacker in the world wind up in front of a judge trying to prove a negative (I didn't write that!)?
I bring this up because the SCO thing is merely the tip of the iceberg. More of this shit is coming. I have no doubt there is stolen code in various OSS projects. But who pays the piper when it's found and the project is called out?
I'd sure like to see the author of the code in question be accountable, not everyone who's ever contributed to or even used the project.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"We figure that the best way to evaluate an idea is to code it up and see how it works in practice. A working feature now is better than a perfect implementation that still isn't done."
What they're saying is "we'd rather introduce features that don't quite work and fix them later instead of making sure the feature works and make sense before we add it to the app."
This is why open source gives some people the heebie-jeebies. With Photoshop, Illustrator, etc the vendor waits until a feature works, then releases it. It may not have all the bells & whistles that people want, and it does get refined as time goes on, but they do wait until its perfect (in its current state) before releasing it."
The user is not a guinea pig that you can f*ck around with.