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2005-07-06
For some reason, I'm suddenly reminded of an old Firesign Threatre bit about a commune where the guru...
Although an amusing ditty, I'm afraid it doesn't go anywhere near to describing what actually happened.
The whole XGL thing was just the latest in a line of examples of why bringing the development of a whole open source project in-house, and then trying to merge the code at some later and undefined date, is a bad idea for everyone. There are any number of ways of restricting development to a group of developers, but generally keeping the public repository as your main one.
I'm somehow reminded of numerous occasions in the past (can't think of any specific examples right now) where someone gets found out, and when it is pointed out what they should be doing they claim that's what they were going to do anyway. Sometimes they even believe it themselves.