RSS/Atom feed Twitter
Site is read-only, email is disabled
  1. Chat
  2. Useful links
  3. Polls

Featured content

Open Source myths

This discussion is connected to the gimp-developer-list.gnome.org mailing list which is provided by the GIMP developers and not related to gimpusers.com.

This is a read-only list on gimpusers.com so this discussion thread is read-only, too.

1 of 1 message available
Toggle history

Please log in to manage your subscriptions.
Open Source myths Dave Neary 15 Dec 12:10
Dave Neary
2003-12-15 12:10:30 UTC (over 20 years ago)

Open Source myths

Hi,

For those (like me) who rarely read slashdot and missed this:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/12/11/myths.html

This is an article which sums up a number of myths about open source software, as well as talking about ways that some of them can be addressed. A number of these are relevant to the GIMP, I think. Of notable interest:

* If the only way to learn the basics of a project is bug fixing, most developers won't bother
* If the software is hard to install, most users will not install it * Being open source isn't enough to get new developers. * End users don't follow CVS

Anyway - I thought it was interesting.

Cheers, Dave.