I know nobody wants to hear my opinions, and in traditional fashion, divergent ideas will likely be squashed, but I'll spit them out anyway.
Coming from the background of proprietary commercial software development, I've consantly 'butted heads' with the prevailing attitudes of the Open Source Community at large. Not all members share the attitudes I speak of, but it seems the majority surely do, and OpenWrt and FreeWrt definitely do. I had hoped FreeWrt would have a different direction than OpenWrt, as its mission statement claimed. Sadly, it seems this is not the case. My biggest issue is that you are developing for yourselves, intead of for the public. That's fine and dandy, but selfish. Why would you be so stubborn as to not allow your code to be used easly by the mainstream? Is this some built up hatred of the mainstream or what? User interface design is secondary and the lead developer of FreeWrt, wbx, even said 'I don't care about a UI, but if someone wants to maintain it, that's ok'. Yea, I'm sure lots of people will jump into a task when this is the opinion of the lead develeper. Even for those very famaliar with the console, it's quicker and easier to use a web UI. Sure, you can do oddball things not possible with a web UI, but a web UI is *appropriate* and *easy to use*. Join the 1990s guys (yes, I know it's 2006). Why anyone would deny this fact, I don't know.... I can't figure out why there is such resistance. This attitude of anything making life easier for the mainstream is 'lame' is what has held your community back for so long, and continues to hold it back. I Google'd just now for 'problems with open source' and the first result was a well written article that put into words these problems better than I could have ever done. It's written by an open source supporter and is intended to fix these issues (I'm sure he was flamed for daring this): http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/levesque/ Yes, I know you have your opinions and will never accept any of this. It's a weird form of self-delusionment is all I can figure. Now I see on this same day I made my objections to your attitudes you add a webif developer to the team. Whopee. Is this spite or what? I hope he knows your attitudes towards webif, since you 'don't care' about it, and likely consider it highly 'lame'. I was excited to work on these projects, even though I received a less than friendly welcoming (at OpenWrt, i.e., every proposition resulting in beratement). Now I guess I'll move on to things I enjoy.. things that have a use for even these 'mainstream lamers'. So now I'm sure I'm on the OSS hitlist for having a divergent opinion. What a progressive community. -- db90h _______________________________________________ freewrt-developers mailing list [email protected] https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-developers
