I finally understand your point! Thank you for describing it so well. So the question is: How can an open source development be improved to give the normal user the best experience?
(normal = normal in the complete, non discriminating, user group) I think this ought to be no more difficult for OOo than for MSO, since there are so many paid developers in this project. The free developers can do what they think is most interesting, and the paid ones can do what is best for the business. Isn't it so? Why not? What can I do (if I don't think the witch hunt has gone too far that is)? /$ 2005/12/11, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 19:52:46 PM +0100, Henrik Sundberg > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > 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 > Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/ > > Play with a child: observe his keen sense of the present. > -- L. B. Fortgang, Redbook Magazine > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
