Comments on: Free software projects need a pitch http://damieng.com/blog/2007/12/03/free-software-projects-need-a-pitch A .NET developer in Redmond Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:08:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Wiki expert http://damieng.com/blog/2007/12/03/free-software-projects-need-a-pitch#comment-10560 Wiki expert Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:16:07 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/2007/12/03/free-software-projects-need-a-pitch#comment-10560 the problem with opensource software is that time is scarce. As you know, many phases exist in the softwaredevelopment proces. But because you always start with the beginning, time is mostly spent there. Problems arise with the after care and feedback, less time is allocated to this part. Therefore opensource projects usually suffer from very long and timeconsuming trajects. You can see this with MediaWiki for example. Even one of the major features such as squid caching is not properly explained, and the explanation that exists is outdated. the problem with opensource software is that time is scarce. As you know, many phases exist in the softwaredevelopment proces. But because you always start with the beginning, time is mostly spent there. Problems arise with the after care and feedback, less time is allocated to this part. Therefore opensource projects usually suffer from very long and timeconsuming trajects.

You can see this with MediaWiki for example. Even one of the major features such as squid caching is not properly explained, and the explanation that exists is outdated.

]]> By: minombresbond http://damieng.com/blog/2007/12/03/free-software-projects-need-a-pitch#comment-5485 minombresbond Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:01:11 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/2007/12/03/free-software-projects-need-a-pitch#comment-5485 open source is not a business, it's only a licencing paradigm, the people that make money with open source still have much to learn! but the open source community is more that a business, like the web 2.0 projects where the users are not only pasive consumers, in the open source world, the users are not only consumers or clients, I mean the open source website is result of a wider perspective, not only a marketing plan nice blog! open source is not a business, it’s only a licencing paradigm,
the people that make money with open source still have much to learn!
but the open source community is more that a business, like the web 2.0 projects where the users are not only pasive consumers, in the open source world, the users are not only consumers or clients, I mean the open source website is result of a wider perspective, not only a marketing plan

nice blog!

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