Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 24, 2006 07:51 AM
First of all, I used GnoTime for a few months and I found it too buggy, and since development is stagnant I had to drop it.
Secondly, I've been involved as a developer in open source for almost 4 years now, and what I've observed is that just because dead open source projects *can* be forked/resurrected, it doesn't mean they *will* be -- in fact it happens pretty rarely. SourceForge for instance is awash in abandoned applications which nobody sees fit to resume work on. This is attributable to stale/obsolete/poor code, or to the dreaded "not invented here" syndrome, or to myriad other technical reasons.
For the record, I own 3 desktops and 1 mobile device, and all run Gentoo or Debian Linux. I don't even own a copy of Windows. I suggest you cease with your way-off-the-mark speculations before you embarrass yourself further.
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Re: Abandonware
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 24, 2006 07:51 AMSecondly, I've been involved as a developer in open source for almost 4 years now, and what I've observed is that just because dead open source projects *can* be forked/resurrected, it doesn't mean they *will* be -- in fact it happens pretty rarely. SourceForge for instance is awash in abandoned applications which nobody sees fit to resume work on. This is attributable to stale/obsolete/poor code, or to the dreaded "not invented here" syndrome, or to myriad other technical reasons.
For the record, I own 3 desktops and 1 mobile device, and all run Gentoo or Debian Linux. I don't even own a copy of Windows. I suggest you cease with your way-off-the-mark speculations before you embarrass yourself further.
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