I disagree with the link. The software developer usually knows how to implement a good idea, but really good ideas come from users, artists, and general people. FOSS developers usually only write for their own ideas, which depending upon the scope and depth of the developers experience, can be limited. Real ideas don't come from just developers.
There are few gifted developers with good ideas. This is the reason we see the same hash and rehash of software. There are also hordes of ordinary developers waiting for someone to give them a project they have some interest in. In the FOSS world this means "multimedia" or a new mp3 player. Should one expect any more than "interest" for FOSS development other than self. Not really, anymore than someone commercial doing something on his/her own time. However, to say that software comes from ideas of gifted developers misses the point of the user. The user who brought computing out of the command line and into the GUI. It's the user who alerts the developer about odd and bizarre "bugs". It's the user who furthers the creation of intuitive software. Most new and innovative software I've seen in the last 7 years has been the result of commercial development (commercial FOSS or proprietary development). Those ideas came from a need within the user community and a company willing to meet the demand. Innovative software might be software that can look at a photo of an elephant, a toy elephant, a child's picture of an elephant, a pink elephant, or a cartoon elephant and can still identify and pick it out of a photo or a collection of animals. For this task we are still using humans. ---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:22:46 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [hugin-ptx] Re: [OSX] ImageFuser 0.4.1 released (also ImageFuser: > Open Source vs. Closed Source) > > > Harry van der Wolf wrote: >> The fact that it is closed source right now is that I'm not ready yet >> and for the time being I consider it as MY project! > > and so should everybody else, with respect. > > > Yuv > > > _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
