On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 19:52:46 PM +0100, Henrik Sundberg
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> 2005/12/11, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > 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?
>
> The open source model is not damaged by the huge non-programming
> user group.
Correct. The open source model is damaged by:
1) the huge percentage of the actual programmers still failing to
acknowledge that almost everybody else is very different from them,
in the sense I already explained
2) all the bad PR coming out of 1)
3) which (for programs like OO.o) won't change until programmers,
regardless of their number, only code for how *they* would use the
program, not the other users. Maybe the best example of this in
OO.o (and *any* other FOSS word processor) is the word
count. Programmers are not paid by the word, or given that kind of
requirements, so they just ignore it. Then they constantly whine
and call loser when *every* review (by professionals who *must*
quickly fit all their opinion in a fixed space) constantly says
"decent app, but I'd never use it for serious work because its word
count sucks"
> Just if you let the number of non-programming users affect the model.
> Why should you?
Of course, you (=the generic programmer/project sponsor) should
certainly ignore all this. Unless you wrote on the home page "this is
the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations
(**) around the world have been expecting for the last two years"
Hmmm, where did I read that?
Ciao,
Marco
(**) individuals, governments and corporation: all categories mostly
composed of programmers, aren't they?
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
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Play with a child: observe his keen sense of the present.
-- L. B. Fortgang, Redbook Magazine
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