[mythtvnz] TV1+1 freeview.xml header update?

[David Moore]

On 04/07/12 17:56, Nick Wallingford wrote:
> On 04/07/12 17:41, Steve Hodge wrote:
>> If you want your open source project to be successful you need to build
>> a community around it. Telling users "it's your problem" is a good way
>> to fail at that. And users having bad experiences put other users off.
>> That said I think the motivation is not so much to protect users from
>> themselves as to protect users from out of date third party tools.
>
> I think Steve has it pretty well pegged, esp. in the last para.
>
> Another open source project I'm involved in (genealogy software) faces
> similar issues. Currently, the database is mostly 'untouchable' - but
> there is a constant undercurrent of users wanting to be able to access
> it directly, converting it to MySQL or whatever.
>
> Version changing of utilities provides enough challenges, but once the
> users can actually start making direct changes, the calls for support
> will, I believe, increase exponentially. Ah, well...
>

On the other hand one of the wonderful things about open source is you 
can _never_ predict all the ways that someone might like to use/extend 
your software. So locking down the software can lose you supporters to 
other, more open, projects.