On 6 April 2015, Roy Tennant wrote:

> I agree with Terry. His decisions on how to deal with his codebase has
> stood the test of time. Open source doesn't mean squat if no one steps up
> to maintain it (and I have some experience with that), so having someone
> dedicated to maintaining it is not a bad strategy. It may not beds the most
> politically correct solution, but so be it. Running (and maintained) code
> trumps everything.

It doesn't trump software freedom, in my opinion, and I don't understand the 
apparent feeling that free software can't have a dedicated long-term maintainer, 
but how other people handle their code is up to them, and I'm glad to now know 
the reasoning in this case.

Bill
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