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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 -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/