KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 62.148.134.162]
on July 17, 2008 09:44 AM
"The shift in the FOSS user base started happening years ago, and it is absolutely necessary that it continues, if FOSS is to survive." - Wrong.
"Normal Users are nice, but are not nearly so important then developers and testers." - Correct.
FOSS is either what people do together because they like it (for lots of reasons) or what a company is offering for free (normally hoping to get profit elsewhere). In the first case, Normal Users are irrelevant. In the second case, it must be clearly understood whose problem they are.
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KDE 4 problems highlight shift from community users to consumers
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 62.148.134.162] on July 17, 2008 09:44 AM"Normal Users are nice, but are not nearly so important then developers and testers." - Correct.
FOSS is either what people do together because they like it (for lots of reasons) or what a company is offering for free (normally hoping to get profit elsewhere). In the first case, Normal Users are irrelevant. In the second case, it must be clearly understood whose problem they are.
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