[wp-hackers] Plugin Site

[Tor Bjornrud]

On Jul 16, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Alex King wrote:

> Sure, but I don't think that pissing off the plugin authors is the way 
> to make the site successful.
>
> --Alex
>
> http://www.alexking.org/
>
>
> On Jul 16, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Tor Bjornrud wrote:
>
>> Well, if people have released their code under a license for their 
>> hack that is open source and doesn't limit redistrobution, they don't 
>> have much of a choice in the matter if someone wants to mirror it.
>

Respectfully, I think having a system that relies on everybody being 
the sole provider of their "open code" not only defeats the purpose of 
Open Source, it ends up making a fragile network of available plugins.  
In no way is it reasonable, in my opinion, to have people committing 
Open Source changes to a OSS project and expect to act as if it's not.

In the long run having non-mirrored code can lead to abandonware and an 
overall stagnation of an oss project, or at the least a plugin.  If 
someone chooses to leave their hack that everyone loves and WP upgrades 
in a way where it breaks the code and the only host is now lost, 
there's a lesser chance of someone picking it up and carrying it on...