Originally posted by starshipeleven
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Originally posted by starshipeleven
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What irks me is this "No real benefit to their own project". That's the problem right there. It's their project and sometimes people disagree with that fact and their vision for the project. The amount of people who use Gallium 9 should speak for itself that it is a benefit to a lot of people, just not to the guy in charge of that project or whoever else was responsible (I don't think it was Alexandre who rejected it).
Furthermore the code is already written so it's not like people are asking others to waste their time coding it. Of course, reviewing it and maintaining it costs time , but how about the guy who wasted time writing the code in the first place? Does his time not matter? He wasted a lot of time and resources writing it and people benefit from it.
So... fork?
See? That's why it happens. (I'm not answering you here, cause I know you're aware of it already, but explaining it to the other guy who was clueless as to why forks exist cause he thinks you can contribute to a project anything you want)
Though technically speaking Gallium 9 is not a fork, so it's not quite the best example here, but whatever. ;-)
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