On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 18:38:34 PM +0100, Gianluca Turconi
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> There's is no evidence the open source model can scale for desktop
> applications. At the same time, there's no evidence it cannot.
> We're talking about assumptions (clues) and not evidences.
90% or more of the current users of: web browsers, email clients,
office productivity suites, IM clients, MP3/video players and similar
are and will remain unable to ever contribute in any way to their
development for any combination of the reasons I listed in previous
posts. What do you call this assertion, clue or evidence, that is a
fact of life?
> from your words it seems FOSS projects have the *duty* to satisfy
> whatever need of whatever user.
No, I don't think so at all, sorry for the misunderstanding. FOSS
developers or projects do *not* have that duty (just to stick to OO.o,
I've criticized repeatedly the several request to include email,
calendaring and what not)
What I mean is only that FOSS developers (as well as very advanced
users like you and me) *do* have the duty to remember in any moment
that "with enough eyes all bugs are shallow", "if there's the source,
you too can fix it" and similar raymondisms have much less meaning
and validity today.
They must *not* say yes to everybody, just remember to not answer in
those ways, or react automatically to any request of help, or bug
report, not accompanied by patches as if it came by some lazy bastard
who *could* do it by himself but prefers to sleep till somebody else
does it.
Ciao,
Marco
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention
from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,
an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads
lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a
magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be,
have nothing important to communicate. -- H. D. Thoreau, 1854
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