1. Do you mean "You're contradicting yourself" ?
Right.
I have to get a research paper out today on agile development so I'm really deprived of sleep.
I knew many of them working so hard.
No doubt about that. Liferay is an excellent software because of all who have worked on it. I won't be so demanding if I thought I was talking to a wall.
I'm trying to keep my demands just so that I'll be able to get them without breaking social ties.
There is more value outside of the company being waited to be unleashed than there is inside
I think Brian Chan expressed this pretty well when he explained in one of the video why he made Liferay open source. If a company is going to do everything inside, there's no reason to make it open source and Liferay.com will likely lose because competitors such as IBM and MS are all very large companies with many more programmers and other people assigned to a developing and selling a product. David wasn't able to defeat goliath by fighting with armour and shield. If Liferay is going to survive in the portal market, it has to have a different development and marketing tactic. Just giving your "family" armour and shield and telling them to go fight is leading them to slaughter.
I think the quote actually means people shouldn't be classified as being "inside" or being "outside" but more of as those who
can actually offers tangible results to those who don't.
For example, there's already many sns and cms software in Japan at a very reasonable price and very high quality. There'll be no benefit of liferay if it wasn't open source. Open source to me is just a development and marketing scheme where each member benefits from using "outside" resources. Put 20% in and get 80% back. To Liferay.com, everybody not with the company is "outside" but to me, Liferay.com and people like Jack, David, and Juan are all "outside".
If you're really thinking about liferay's survival, it'll probably be better trying to please more parties to join instead just pleasing current internal parties. Liferay needs to "grow", not retain the current status.
You are doing all this for a better Liferay and for its own good.
Well, for my own good. I need Liferay.com to succeed for me to succeed. I'm just an ordinary person and not a saint.
I think there are other members here in a similar position.
BTW, some users have noted how I reply to a post has changed since the time I started. I'm no longer giving direct answers too much. This is because users who finds a direct answer would be able to finish his/her task but won't be learning liferay. We really need more people who know liferay over people who's just using liferay to finish an assigned task because they would more tend to become part of the community.
Firmi prego dentro per inbandierare questo come inadeguato.
