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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, April 06 2013 @ 06:29 PM EDT |
Morozov writes that the difference between [free vs open source] is
that free software emphasizes users and that open
source emphasizes developers.
But I would submit that free software is also primarily interested in developers
as well, in that the freedoms
it emphasizes are ones that matter to developers,
but very little to the rest of us. That’s where the movement went wrong. [ techcrunch]
At last, somebody says it
out loud. The paragraph below that must have been written by someone looking
over my shoulder. I've lost count
of the graphic artists, sound design students
and pros, and account shufflers who've told me they don't give a rat's whisker
for the code,
they just want to get on with their work. They would rather pay
for a brand name warranty, and wait till next year's release for new features,
than persuade some geek to massage some free software. Yes, in my experience
the big brands will listen to feature requests and bug
reports from users, and
usually do something useful about it. Free and open source community response is
too often a curate's egg, because
of the assumption that the user is a
developer, or at least knows where to find the crash logs, or recompile their
app with debug flags set.
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