[Sigia-l] Marketing vs. design

[Listera]

Alexander Johannesen:

> Hmm, there are thousands of open-source projects about...

Yes, but we're not talking about them, are we?

I referred to "retail-level open source software" and Robertson refers to OS
software that's to be packaged to compete with off-the-shelf commercial
apps.

> you can always join a project of your liking and help out.

Why? Open source is not about charity.

> Personally, I think the biggest problem of the whole shebang is that people
> who design well isn't nescessarily interested in open-source stuff,

That's empirically true.

> but that's just my own broad sweeping and wrong brush speaking.

Don't short change yourself. :-)

On a more serious note, to reiterate my point, a frightening percentage of
open source developers neither care about nor quite understand, and rarely
ever start with Design. What deeply offends me in Robertson's approach is
this the notion that what's broken is not fundamental design but packaging
and marketing. Someone should remind him that the days of MP3.com and dotcom
are over.

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Ziya

Generalizations are always inaccurate.