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From: Wu Y. <ad...@ne...> - 2002-05-31 02:09:13
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Since I started this off-topic thread, I think I need to say some more words. Firstly, I was just complaining. Complaint from a somehow old corporate guy find not enough time to study the auto* tools and to dig into the free software. Surely there are very different kinds of people working for open software. The major open-source contributors I know in China contributed their work when they were post-graduate students. Free software HAS changed the world. Though, as I compared it to communism, I don't feel it mature enough to enter people's normal life. The first lesson Eric Raymond learnt from Linux in his famous The Cathedral and the Bazaar is: Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. Since developers write software out of his own interest, the software is generally high-quality. Since developers write software out of his own interest, it is possible he will not care much what the users want; which great software companies generally do very well. These are my worries. I hope I could contribute ideas and opinions to the free community. I hope people (esp. developers) would appreciate these ideas and opinions. If they could not (or have not time) do it, tell me (or put it off to a later date). Don't use "submit a patch" to frustrate people contributing ideas and opinions. Use it only when you know the other person can do it, or probably can do. Maybe "would you ...". Maybe I am just too sentimental. Too bad I am posting in THIS list, which is the best open-source community I know, though I don't know many. So much for this thread. Best regards for all, esp. for Jose, Danny, and Earnie, Wu Yongwei |