After you tip your hand...

After you tip your hand...

Posted Nov 20, 2003 22:29 UTC (Thu) by argent (guest, #17054)
In reply to: After you tip your hand... by kasperd
Parent article: Thomas Bushnell is no longer Hurd maintainer

"If your development environment had been free software, you would never have faced the problem you are facing now."

Finish the sentence. "... unless you don't have the skills or resources to pick up the traces after the community abandoned that particular product."

I see they're trying to resurrect TenDRA. Jolly good. Maybe they'll shorten the trail of abandoned free software products by a step or two.

And even if the development environment had been proprietary, you could have kept going if you had the source code in escrow, as many people with safety critical projects still demand. It all comes down to the resources you have to divert to each particular component of your requirements... and those resources may well include money and "pull" as well as developer time.

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