[Sigia-l] UI for the $150 Laptop (OLPC)

[Andrew Boyd]

On 12/1/06, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzbbyy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally I think it goes a bit deeper than that.  I do agree with
> "The process of OSS app creation is overwhelmingly developer-driven" -
> but this is not the root cause, just an intermediate syndrom. So the
> question here is 'Why OSS is developer-driven?"

My guess, without being sarcastic, is that, in the main, developers
are the people that have the burn to produce OSS.

Does this mean that because things that are on the left-hand upswing
of the adoption bell curve will be by early adopters for early
adopters that there will always be a tendancy towards a "love it or
leave it" philosophy? In some projects at least, I think that this is
true.

Is this a bad thing? For the early adopters themselves, probably not.
For the people who like to come in a bit further along the x axis,
they're probably used to it by now.

Cheers, Andrew