Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> writes: > > Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com> writes: > > > > Still, all kinds of providers go through leadership changes and ousters > > all the time - this one is being done open-source style. That seems to > > have some media people freaked out. > > The whole `open-ness' idea still seems to be `new and unsettling' to a > lot of people; even people who are accustomed to open development in > software still get freaked-out when the open methodology is applied in > areas other than straight-up software development. > > Openmoko, for example, has repeatedly had issues with the open > development model that they've used for their smartphone/palmtop/whatever > hardware and software: a bunch of things that were more like `team > status meetings', `team morale-raising sessions', etc. were all > mis-taken as being `press releases' and `marketing promises'.
Rather, I should say that they've repeatedly had [public relations] problems *due to* their open development model. The open development model itself is working just fine :) -- Don't be afraid to ask (Lf.((Lx.xx) (Lr.f(rr)))). _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
