You don't get my point. You need A LOT of cheap eyeballs to "distill" out the good ones.
Heck 90% of Linux kernel development is done by 20 people. Do you think Linux would succeed if it only had 100,000 users? it would not. These things like Linux-HA don't even have 10,000 users. My point is that you need a LARGE community for your Open Source project to succeed. If your community is SMALL, and not well-motivated (e.g. a bunch of amateurs..) then you have a problem. Linus succeeded because even when he started, Operating Systems were well defined and had 20-30 years of research already in the public domain. I also when through the "GNOME is unusable..." phase. Eventually the technology DOES get there. But if you need to solve a problem NOW, and real money is involved, you can't afford to wait for the technology to improve. Also, by the time the Open Source solution is mature, the (innovative) closed source vendors have moved on to something else. On 10/2/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/2/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/2/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Corollary to my previous rants. > > > > > > The main value proposition of Open Source as a development methodology > > > (as opposed to a Philosophy) is Eric Raymond's tired mantra: > > > > > > With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. > > > > > > The problem is -- what if you don't have enough eyeballs? a few > > > highly-paid (closed-source) eyeballs are gonna be vastly more > > > efficient than 100X as many cheap eyeballs. > > > > > > > I dont think so. I never bet against anything cheap and in large numbers. > > > > And i realize that human beings learn new stuff everyday and the cheap > eyeballs gradually become expert cheap eyeballs. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
