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Re: Email to Brian Behlendorf
Author: Steven Vore Posted: 4/24/2000; 10:06:38 AM Topic: Email to Brian Behlendorf Msg #: 16628 (In response to 16617) Prev/Next: 16627 / 16629
It's not in their world. Open Source advocates, while increasingly speaking to a wider audience are still mainly producing tools that are used by, in the a manner appropriate to the author themselves.Isn't that by design? ESR's Lesson #1 is "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch" rather than working on programs which "they neither need nor love." How many hackers need good writing tools? Or good outliners? Or good whatchamacallits? - or more accurately, how many of them realize that they really could use a good [fill in the blank] if they had one?
Maybe our role in OSS could be that of champion, helping create itches that developers would then want to scratch.
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