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by mikey_p
5395 days ago
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Alex this argument is just ridiculous. After all you've been through with the Drupal community lately you should know that for all intents and purposes I haven't seen any conclusive evidence that Acquia is hurting Drupal. They aren't using the community to do work that only benefits them, because they aren't doing any work at all that only benefits them, everything they do is available for anyone that wants to use it. I for one have no found any of your arguments sound at all, you use the Overlay as an example, assuming that since you don't use it, no one else does and it doesn't belong in core. This is patently false, lousy logic, and until you can demonstrate where they are abusing the Drupal community for features or code that would only be usable/benefit Acquia, your argument and concerns are uncertain, and you are trying to cast doubt as to their motives. If that isn't FUD, I don't know what is. |
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Here's the thing Mikey, I never said Acquia is doing work that "only benefits them", and I also never questioned their motives (unless assuming that profit as a motive for a venture-backed startup is controversial).
Overlay, however, is a great example of the (subtle) shift in power within the community. Now that Dries has a paid staff he is able to have things developed by paying for them directly rather than by building consensus or waiting for a volunteer to take it on. That's a real shift, it's easily seen in how the overlay was built and found it's way into core, and even Acquia employees can see it was a problem: http://groups.drupal.org/node/170999#comment-575529. To quote from the "other" Alex: "The Overlay example, however, is different, in my opinion. This, I do believe was a clear case of Dries knowingly making an unpopular decision, Acquia being the only company willing to fund the development, and the development not have happened without such funding."
So, please rest the FUD talk, you obviously don't have any real examples of me spreading "FUD" here (obvious to me, because your accusation is false), and it's really nothing more than a lame attempt at shutting down a discussion that really needs to take place.