"but first "performance" is a part of "user-centric" design"
Prove it. User centric design is whatever the users decide. Open source software always had (and still does have) a reputation for being lightwight and fast. Only because users have been screaming for these features have they been added. There is a cost to everything. You can't have it all for free.
"Need I point out that it's F/OSS that's coming to people hat in hand."
I see you pointing, but at what I'm not sure. You show me the hat or the hand. Until then, it's an empty claim.
"The real world already had their solutions before F/OSS even showed up."
HAHA. "The real world" Like this is an imaginary one? The problem with your argument is that before F/OSS showed up, people had to pay out the ass for those solutions, and they were stuck with what they got from their vendor. Now the solutions are free and you can customize them to your needs and even re-sell your customizations. Yet somehow that isn't good enough for you... Fine, go pay for the closed solution that you can't modify, we don't care, it's your loss.
"So F/OSS taking their ball and going home isn't going to make a lick of difference to the rest of the world."
Well I took the ball and went home, so why are you still following me?
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Re:Scratch-centric design.
Posted by: Jeremy Akers on July 22, 2006 12:42 PMProve it. User centric design is whatever the users decide. Open source software always had (and still does have) a reputation for being lightwight and fast. Only because users have been screaming for these features have they been added. There is a cost to everything. You can't have it all for free.
"Need I point out that it's F/OSS that's coming to people hat in hand."
I see you pointing, but at what I'm not sure. You show me the hat or the hand. Until then, it's an empty claim.
"The real world already had their solutions before F/OSS even showed up."
HAHA. "The real world" Like this is an imaginary one? The problem with your argument is that before F/OSS showed up, people had to pay out the ass for those solutions, and they were stuck with what they got from their vendor. Now the solutions are free and you can customize them to your needs and even re-sell your customizations. Yet somehow that isn't good enough for you... Fine, go pay for the closed solution that you can't modify, we don't care, it's your loss.
"So F/OSS taking their ball and going home isn't going to make a lick of difference to the rest of the world."
Well I took the ball and went home, so why are you still following me?
-Jeremy
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