"M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:20051210065039.GQ31183 @mclink.it:
>> Most software has similar irritations. But complex open source >> projects seem uniquely badly placed to fix them. They rely on a very >> small group of programmers relative to the user base, and who have >> no direct incentive to work on the bugs that are important to users. > > applies in the same way to proprietary software, because: > 1) even there the programmers team is much smaller than the user base > 2) programmers have direct monetary incentive to work on what product > management says it's important for company strategy, which only > partially overlaps with the most common pressing user requests. > That depends on company strategy. Successful companies will surely have a strategy of fixing the complaints that put off significant numbers of users. I think the point is that cvolunteer programmers are -- naturally -- attracted to bugs (and still more, adding features) that are interesting to them, and there is no mechanism such as money can provide for making them more interested in the tedious work of fixing stuff important to users. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
