gnupic: gpal fork
Subject:
Fwd: gpal fork
From:
Michiel Boerman ####@####.####
Date:
9 Mar 2004 15:51:06 -0000
Message-Id: <C98543BA-71DC-11D8-B0A2-000502D16926@id5r.nl>
and another one...
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Michiel Boerman ####@####.####
> Date: March 9, 2004 2:19:03 PM CET
> To: Byron A Jeff ####@####.####
> Subject: Re: gpal fork
>
> Don't agree with you on this one. Sometimes it takes a commercial
> initiative to get things moving a bit. I'm a Mac user. I'm very happy
> with the connection they made with the open-souce-universe. But I'm
> equally happy with their proprietary user interface which they guard
> as a hellhound. Helps to set a standard (and a high quality one in my
> opinion). And that is the achilles heel of the open source world. too
> many little islands doing their own thing.
> The oopic thing is just the wrong combination of both worlds. Yet
> another island with little added value from the commercial push.
>
> Michiel
>
>
> On Mar 9, 2004, at 1:27 PM, Byron A Jeff wrote:
>
>> What closed source authors have not yet figured out is that there
>> really isn't
>> a constituency that exists anymore that benefits from the closed
>> source model.
>> There used to be a time where it was a viable profit model. It just
>> isn't
>> anymore. Here's what's going to happen: Developers won't use it
>> because it
>> won't meet their needs. Someone will need a Mac or FreeBSD or other
>> kind of
>> port. Others will need better performance or a specialized interface.
>> But
>> in the closed source model only one person (or a small group) can
>> fulfill
>> all of these requests. So it'll move slowly.
>
