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smashing | 13 years ago

He means that instead of becoming open-source and dying, it became a Mozilla/Firefox situation.

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statictype|13 years ago

In total hindsight, it seems like this should have been expected.

For open source projects to succeed, it needs a strong, clear voice and leader and a large community of users (which results in a large enough group of developers willing to contribute).

TM2 has the bonus in that there's an extremely significant overlap between the user base and those who can and want to contribute to development.

The only question was whether there would be someone taking charge and pushing development forward, accepting patches etc...

It looks like that's very much the case.