Youre saying that these things that usually tend to repulse/. readers can be good when the product is in development? I can see how this would benifit all.
If they were completely open (with the source, I mean) from the get-go, people would see the maturation of the code and would begin to read things into it (like the prototype for an as-yet unwritten function with a enigmatic name) creating all sorts of undue and unwanted hype. Should the developer hit a snag and have to backtrack a bit and go in another direction, all sorts of things would be read into that, again creating some hype, or even a little FUD (albeit generated by the masses).
PS. I guess the community is split over the inherent good/evil of NDAs and patents. hmmmm.
Why is it that, because Linus is involved with Transmeta, there is no minor uproar over their filing of software patents. I seem to remember an 'Ask Slashdot' a couple of days ago where the 'askers' were flamed for wanting to file patents on their IP. The general feeling was that software patents are inherently evil, and that all software should be solely under the GPL.
What has changed since then? Linus Torvalds, the god of Linux and the hero of the OSS revolution is working for a company that files patents on all of its ideas and *GASP* requires NDAs in order to see their work. Why has no one noticed this? *sarcasm>Is it because it's Linus, and He can do no wrong */sarcasm>? Or are people realising that there is a time and a place for OSS and the GPL, and this might not be it?
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Youre saying that these things that usually tend to repulse /. readers can be good when the product is in development? I can see how this would benifit all.
If they were completely open (with the source, I mean) from the get-go, people would see the maturation of the code and would begin to read things into it (like the prototype for an as-yet unwritten function with a enigmatic name) creating all sorts of undue and unwanted hype. Should the developer hit a snag and have to backtrack a bit and go in another direction, all sorts of things would be read into that, again creating some hype, or even a little FUD (albeit generated by the masses).
PS. I guess the community is split over the inherent good/evil of NDAs and patents. hmmmm.
What has changed since then? Linus Torvalds, the god of Linux and the hero of the OSS revolution is working for a company that files patents on all of its ideas and *GASP* requires NDAs in order to see their work. Why has no one noticed this? *sarcasm>Is it because it's Linus, and He can do no wrong */sarcasm>? Or are people realising that there is a time and a place for OSS and the GPL, and this might not be it?