Jürgen Spitzmüller schreef op 29-4-2014 11:18:
2014-04-29 10:42 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes:
This is how open source software works. Developers do what they
want. I do not mean that they do stuff that nobody want. But if
some one wants some "boring" feature to be implemented, they have
to pay someone to do it. It is as simple as that.
Or join the team. I never would have joined the development team if
there would have been people who were willing to fulfill all my
requests. And let me remind you that I was completely
coding-alliterate when I started. So "I am no programmer" or "I do not
have time" is not a legitimate excuse ;-)
If open source projects need business and PR plans, then I seem to
have failed to understand what OSS is about.
Jürgen
When I was at the GSOC mentor summit, I was asked numerous times what
the "business model of LyX" is. I didn't really have an answer to that,
other than that we are a bunch of enthousiasts working on it in our free
time.
OSS is not what it used to be. Most projects have ways of making money,
or are supported by companies. Git's maintainer is hired by Google,
major work on Git is done by GitHub people, KDE has a large investor
that allows them to hire developers, and so forth..
I also read last week that some large tech companies are going to
financially support OSS to prevent any new "Heartbleed" bugs. They say
this bug was caused partly because the developers of OpenSSL just didn't
have enough time to ensure the quality of the "product" (apparently they
are enthousiasts like us).
Vincent
