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>"The challenge for us is to figure out how to deliver something which is crisp and clean," without sacrificing the community process, he said. There are multi
by Prrometheus 18y ago
>"The challenge for us is to figure out how to deliver something which is crisp and clean," without sacrificing the community process, he said.
There are multiple architectures for open source projects that run the spectrum from anarchic to authoritarian. If a founder has a particular artistic vision that he feels passionate about, nothing is stopping him from forcing it through and then releasing the source code.
Personally, I love using my Ubuntu desktop. The team has done a great job on meeting the usability challenge. The days and weeks spent troubleshooting hardware problems were ugly, horrible, and frustrating (I would love to have an Ubuntu "Installs for sure" hardware list somewhere), but the Ubuntu user experience is a delight compared to Windows.
A caveat: I've never used a mac for a significant period of time so I can't say how it compares to that competition.
- wmf 18y agoIf a founder has a particular artistic vision that he feels passionate about, nothing is stopping him from forcing it through and then releasing the source code. Except the fact that he'll receive virtually no contributions from the community and thus he'll be limited to whatever can be done by himself and his employees. Also, community-controlled distros have set themselves up as gatekeepers, so most users never even discover software that the distros don't like. I think Shuttleworth has identified the correct problem: We know how to get a large number of programmers to produce high-quality software (employ them) and we know how to get a large number of programmers to produce a large amount of software for free (the bazaar), but we don't know how to convince a large number of programmers to produce high-quality software for free.