Rich wrote: > On 2009.01.12. 07:57, Yuval Levy wrote: >> So what? If users are happy with the old version, why waste resources on >> providing/supporting the new one? > > because for an opensource project your users are your only wealth.
Does not really answer my question. If the users are the project's only wealth (something I do not completely agree with) and they are happy with the old version, why waste resources on a new one? > project needs users at least as much as users need the project. > users mean testing, marketing, new developers... Agree. Users contribute in many ways. Participation to this list with ideas is already a valuable contribution. The only real personal wealth is time. Contributed time is IMO the wealth of any open source project. > having more users on the bleeding edge is best a project can hope for - > other projects employ various strategies (even trick) to get more > testing for new versions. working against this will only do harm for the > project. > that's the broad look on the project. individual contributors can be > motivated by many different factors. I respectfully disagree your view on the broad look on the project. IMO pushing the users too much toward the bleeding edge can kill a project (Netscape 5 comes to my mind). The metric I watch is how many of the users actually contribute. There is a trade-off between attracting more users and supporting the existing user base. Every minute spent attracting Windows users to the bleeding edge is a minute that could have been used to add a new feature for the benefit of all existing users. > if you feel that your work should be paid for, it's your choice. I'm not asking that my work be paid for. I am asking that those benefiting from my contribution contribute something to the project. If I had work that I wanted to be paid for, I would ask market rate and I would use it to pay my bills, not plug it back into a project bounty. >> > Windows users are also accustomed to get stuff for free >> >> you mean they don't pay a license fee for Windows? > > i'll bite - yes, 95% of them ;> And how can users who do not respect intellectual property be an asset to an open source project? There is nothing to be pirated here... >> been there, done that. Click on the thumbnail at >> <http://panospace.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/hugin-ships-with-nodal-ninja/> > > that's very cool. too bad canon, nikon and others aren't following the > suit (yet) :) I lack contacts into those big companies. Any help would be appreciated. That said, they seem to be light-years away from embracing open source or any form of collaborative model. Last time I checked Canon was still shipping Photostitch with its cameras. Yuv --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 hugin-ptx@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to hugin-ptx-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
