On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 14:58:13 PM +0000, Andrew Brown
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> I think the point is that volunteer 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.
+1 and, everybody: note that this is even more true when you want to
speak of Free Software (a-la-Stallman, ie the brotherhood of
altruistical hackers vision) instead of Open Source (economic only
model as defined by ESR, Sun, some license a or any combination of
them all).
Add to that the fact that 90% of human beings will never have the time
and/or the skills to contribute to all the software they have to use
daily to get something *else* done for common good, and here's why the
problem is a general one.
Ciao,
Marco
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Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Capitalists all believe in free markets until they have to live in
one. M. R. Chapman, "In Search of Stupidity"
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