Hi I think the seminal work on the open development process is 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' by Eric Raymond.
I would second that the discussion held here represents extreme points of view perhaps to make for a more lucid debate. In reality we as developers do greatly care about our users, get upset when people criticise our work, and generally have human reactions to these things. In most case the only reward and pleasure we get from our hard work is seeing our work 'out in the wild', being used and enjoyed by people. Regarding QGIS reading your large dataset, I would suggest to ensure you have spatial index (using option in vector layer properties dialog) built for the dataset and use scale dependent rendering. Best Regards Tim 2008/1/5, Robert Coup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 06/01/2008, dnrg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If anyone can recommend a good book on the sociology > > of open source communities, I'm all eyes. > > "Producing Open Source Software"[1] has some interesting stuff in it, and so > does "Understanding Open Source Software Developement"[2]. > > [1] http://producingoss.com/ > [2] > http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=s5EwJk0tUJAC&ie=ISO-8859-1 > > HTH, > > Rob :) > > -- > One Track Mind Ltd. > PO Box 1604, Shortland St, Auckland, New Zealand > Phone +64-9-966 0433 Fax +64-9-969 0045 > Web http://www.onetrackmind.co.nz > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > -- Tim Sutton QGIS Project Steering Committee Member - Release Manager Visit http://qgis.org for a great open source GIS openModeller Desktop Developer Visit http://openModeller.sf.net for a great open source ecological niche modelling tool Home Page: http://tim.linfiniti.com Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
