When Add-Ons Wage War

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 05/15/2009 - 10:00

Conflicts in the Open Source world — as in the proprietary world — are hardly a surprising phenomenon.

Indeed, our community can't even agree over what to call one of its most popular projects — a fight we have no interest in entering, particularly not here.

What is perhaps more surprising is when these disputes escalate like a deleted scene from Fatal Attraction — escalate so far that the powers-that-be must intervene.

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