>In Inkscape I frequently make the case that our customer and audience
is
>*not* the ordinary user. Unlike commercial software, where an ordinary
>user equals some dollar value, with open source that user is just a
free
>rider. Rather, value comes from the users who participate in and
>contribute
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:18:59AM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> IMHO what more people downloading Sylpheed shows that there are orders of
> magnitude more desktop windows users than desktop linux users and that
The metrics I've collected for Inkscape downloads bear this out,
although it's diff
On Friday 09 June 2006 07:44, SAKUMA Junichi wrote:
> Here I attach the notes from the meeting with a hope that
> this movement in Japan and DTL/DAM can start interaction.
interesting stuff, thanks for sharing it.
> - The OSS development model won't work sometimes with desktop
> app. users
On past June 1st, a BoF called Desktop Meeting took place
in Linux Conference 2006 Tokyo. About 40 community people
got together and discussed OSS desktop issues. This was
the first one of a series of gatherings of Japanese who
are interested in the linux desktop.
Here I attach the notes from the
