Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 03, 2004 12:55 AM
Some projects are fun, and some are not. Which is which depends on who you ask. I think it's safe to say, however, that competent programmers are in general more attracted to nitty gritty computer sciencey type problems than Aunt Tillie's configuration issues. End user support is not fun. The attraction of solving end user problems decreases in proportion to end user cluelessness. The trouble here is that the number of users increases in proportion to the cluelessness. The need for help is high, and the willingness to provide it is low.
People keep wondering how to make money with FOSS software. If you ask me, this is where the money is: doing the scutwork. Helping people who can't or don't want to help themselves. Maybe that's a service, maybe that's a distribution, maybe that means writing documentation for dummies. Lindows, anyone? I dunno. But thar's gold in them thar hills, I tell ya.
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Re:Exactly so
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 03, 2004 12:55 AMPeople keep wondering how to make money with FOSS software. If you ask me, this is where the money is: doing the scutwork. Helping people who can't or don't want to help themselves. Maybe that's a service, maybe that's a distribution, maybe that means writing documentation for dummies. Lindows, anyone? I dunno. But thar's gold in them thar hills, I tell ya.
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