ADBDAT

Hi,

I’m totally into bettermeans, I’d love to help translate it to spanish and italian even, but what you say about open source there isn’t precise:

Open source projects are led by “benevolent dictators” – because in some cases a big or quick decision just needs to be made, it doesn’t matter so much what that is, but someone needs to make it or the forums and mailing lists will creak under the weight of everyone’s opinion. So linus, or whoever is the project leader, will dictate a direction, and their technical skill or charisma generally means these decisions will be respected. Rarely, also, they will chuck people out or not commit certain changes, but they know the masses have appointed them as easily as they can fork the project, so this keeps them benevolent – the other side of this has been seen recently with the openoffice/libreoffice fiasco.

Open source(bsd, mit, mozilla, gpl etc), as opposed to free software(gpl) is a pretty wide definition, so there are lots of variations on this, and in some cases it might even resemble command and control, especially where some get paid and others code for free.

Well done for putting bettermeans on git. I’m really glad, and hope to see it in use soon and in lots of places!

Ale