Re: [Vala] Port Tomboy?

[Jiří Zárevúcky <zarevucky jiri gmail com>]

2009/7/2 Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com>:
> Jiří Zárevúcky wrote:
> > Regardless the potential advantages of two directly comparable
> > project, imagine what would it cause in a larger scale. gnote is
> > already seen as a "good" counterpart to an "evil" project in the eyes
> > of almost religionistic mono-haters and it is a denial of Tomboy's
> > actual achievement. Imagine that someone would copy your original cool
> > project just because he doesn't like the language. I'm sure it would
> > make you angry.
>
> Why should it make a developer angry?  This is open source after all.
> Forks happen.  If the fork becomes more popular than your project, well
> that's life.  If a developer really wants that much control over his
> baby's destiny, then an open source license may not be his style, and
> maybe MS-style protectionism (patents, DRM, etc) will work out better.
>
> There are lots of reasons not to clone tomboy in Vala.  Waste of time as
> you say, etc.  But saying "[wouldn't it] make [the developer] angry" is
> not one of them.

I was talking about moral implication of *useless* porting to another
language, with very questionable benefit and no advancement at all.
Just a stupid shallow copy. The fact you can do something doesn't mean
you should do so. If you *can* take something in real life, it can
still make other people angry or sad if you don't ask them first. But
then, it's all "just" about simple human decency. There are no rules
against being a moron.