Upon arriving I was immediately struck by how large and professional this open community conference is. CommunityOne seems indicative of what Sun’s developer audience might expect. A nice balance of spoon fed and gourmet buffet. Aside from doing final polish on my Fedora community presentation, I went to Benjamin Mako Hill’s talk on free culture and freedomdefined.org.
Currently I’m sitting in Jono Bacon’s talk on Ubuntu, and it’s amazing the thematic matches. People who really get community, the value of working with upstream, and treating community in the right ways. I think that, aside from logos, I could take Jono’s talk and give it about Fedora. Well, all except the Chuck Norris images.
When JBoss Developer Studio was released, Darryl Taft, who writes an application development blog for eWeek.com, wondered, “Red Hat claims first place in the Eclipse open-source IDE stakes and I want to know why that makes a difference.” In the article, Darryl raises some difficult to understand points, such as equating the GPL to a lock-in license while misunderstanding the licensing of the plugins open sourced by Red Hat.
In trying to understand Darryl’s logic, I have read and re-read his short article. It leaves me with the question, does Darryl understand what open source is compared to closed source/proprietary software?
The title of this post is from a comment by Michael Tiemann, referring to Fedora (best of now) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (best for seven years.) It is also symbolic of a useful set of relationships that has grown up around Fedora and Red Hat.
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Our friend and mild-mannered iconoclast, Jef Spaleta, wrote a funny parody of how to salvage a developer relationship, based on the concept of the “frenemy” from this article. Two of my favorite points that Jef reworked:
2. Keep a support system. “Make sure you have, or that you cultivate, other developers who are consistently positive and loving so you can remind yourself that a software developer relationship doesn’t have to be a love-hate relationship,”
3. Focus on the good. “If you really want to keep the love-hate software developer relationship going, make sure you remind yourself of the traits about the other software developer that are loving and why you want to keep the software developer relationship going, dwelling on the positive rather than the negative.”
