Are Open Source Developers Throwing Good Code After Bad?
Time and again I run into the belief that the open source community has an infinite amount of energy to spare for its galaxy of projects. It's not true, and we need to stop acting like it is.
What I mean by this is simple, and was in fact given form by yesterday's column about the folks who are working on an extension to the Linux kernel that will allow Windows binaries to run natively. As an engineering feat, it's impressive. As a strategy, a way to make Linux into that much more robust of a software ecosystem, it's troubling, because it reinforces the unspoken assumption that the only way Linux can get anywhere is by being Windows's cousin once removed.
Most people I have talked to have responded this way: It's their project, let them do what they want with it, something good is likely to come of it, and hey -- there's a lot of programming fish in the sea, it's not like we're losing them. And my response has been: No.
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