I finally got a chance to read through this thread. I have been saving it for a rainy day :)
>Bottom line: Problems which face the coders themselves are most likely to >get addressed. They don't care about winning over the competition. They >don't care about converting video professionals into using Linux. They >care >about solving their own problems, and maybe their friends' problems, in >their >spare time. That time is often scarce. >That's how Free Software works. If that does not result in the kind of >software you need, you are free to purchase proprietary software which >_does_ >fit your needs. I agree that this is the way things work if left on their own (i.e. scratch your own itch). This is the reason there are other roles in an open source community that need to be filled. Larger projects have community managers and boards that can help steer a project so that (in part) other things that matter to non-coders can be addressed as well. Do we have these today or do we need to start looking at this? I don't think we should be content in what we have today. One of the best benefits of the Open Source model is that we can take creative and helpful suggestions from the community and role them up into a product without having to wait for a single company to do it for us. We can also learn from what other applications are doing and implement similar features if they would benefit us even though it is often hard to find the time. Lastly, I think while it may not be the goal of this project to convert people to Linux, it goes without saying that the more people we have using the software the more contributors we will have and the software will become better for it. I believe Cinelerra has great potential and could be much better than proprietary solutions on the market today. Improving the user interface (or perhaps offering an alternative) should be an important goal for us at this point since I have heard from many that their first impression of Cinelerra was negative based solely on the way it looked and not how it performed. I don't believe that we should be telling these people to suck it up or go buy proprietary software on this point at least. -- Thanks, Aaron Newcomb http://www.thesourceshow.org http://www.opennewsshow.org _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
