Re: WO(Re)petition
Re: WO(Re)petition
- Subject: Re: WO(Re)petition
- From: Miguel Arroz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:43:26 +0100
Hi!
On 2007/10/03, at 12:13, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
Was? It is still the best idea for the 90% of the ubiquitous stuff.
Even in the WO world, the open source components make up a
significant chunk of the stack: OS (sometimes), Tomcat (sometimes),
Wonder, WOLips, Ant, pdf frameworks, AJAX frameworks, and dozens of
others.
Yes, but at what cost? Don't get me wrong, I love Wonder, and I
respect a lot the people who work on Wonder every day. But let's face
it: compare the quality of both projects, WO and Wonder. I did find
some stuff on Wonder (specially the qualifiers) that simply didn't
work at all, because their author made them for solving it's own
problem. I fixed them to solve my own problem, and commited. I'm not
sure if they work on the general case, and I suspect they don't. Now
compare it with Apple's qualifiers... they just work. This is what
I'm talking about: if I have to choose between a slow and stable
development and a quick but not-so-good development, I choose the
first. Yes, I'm an old school kind of guy, but I like things that work.
but it has a lot of drawbacks, specially when you look at the
quality of the products, because a lof of people work on it and
because many times there's not a roadmap for the product.
Is there a roadmap for WO? Again, not all projects are created
equal. Just like with commercial software, you have to apply your
intelligence to make the right choice.
As you see I haven't argued for or against open sourcing WO, but
let's be reasonable and not generalize too much.
It's true, WO doesn't have a (public, at least) roadmap. And there
are a lot of crappy comercial software, and some good quality open
source software. But my point is, what will open source bring to us
that is any good? You mentioned Wonder features. What's important
there is the features themselves, not the fact that they are open
source. Who cares if they are open source or not? I want them to
work, that's all. Again, look at Cocoa. Is it open source? No. Anyone
cares? No. That's why I prefer the approach of convincing Apple to
develop WO actively, instead of convincing them to open source WO,
specially because they will NOT do it.
Yours
Miguel Arroz
Miguel Arroz
http://www.terminalapp.net
http://www.ipragma.com
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