I've been watching the OTW situation from afar. ... Hrm. I have had weird feelings about the OTW, to be honest (and I've posted about them a few times over the past 14 months, starting with when I deleted my original A03 account and onward). Those weird feelings have made me not want to get involved with the OTW and have limited my willingness to publish on A03.
My weird feelings about OTW were formed in 2009-2010 when I started investigating how I could help out as a software developer and user experience design (so I could join efforts with them rather than develop a semi-competing idea I have been playing with in my spare time). I think skud's epic post from the POV of an open source software developer fully and completely says everything I might have said if given the gift of eloquence that skud has.
So... yeah. I have not been the least bit surprised watching the OTW issues unfold over the past few months.
It makes me sad, especially when reading heart wrenching posts from people in fandom I greatly respect.
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I've been watching the OTW situation from afar. ... Hrm. I have had weird feelings about the OTW, to be honest (and I've posted about them a few times over the past 14 months, starting with when I deleted my original A03 account and onward). Those weird feelings have made me not want to get involved with the OTW and have limited my willingness to publish on A03.
My weird feelings about OTW were formed in 2009-2010 when I started investigating how I could help out as a software developer and user experience design (so I could join efforts with them rather than develop a semi-competing idea I have been playing with in my spare time). I think skud's epic post from the POV of an open source software developer fully and completely says everything I might have said if given the gift of eloquence that skud has.
So... yeah. I have not been the least bit surprised watching the OTW issues unfold over the past few months.
It makes me sad, especially when reading heart wrenching posts from people in fandom I greatly respect.