[OT] Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> http://www.citizenlab.org/opensource/
> Canadian researcher Michelle Levesque has thoroughly examined an Open
> Source Project (which she kept anonymous) and found "the five most
> important flaws with Open Source software development to be as follows:
> 1) User interface design
> 2) Documentation
> 3) Feature-centric development
> 4) Programming for the self
> 5) Religious blindness"
>
> Has someone an idea what "Project X" could be? At first sight, I thought
> of the ALSA Project or The Gimp, but Project X seems to come with a
> calendar ...

No clue here.  However, my thoughts are that the items that she lists as
flaws are fairly accurate for most OSS projects.  That doesn't
neccesearily make them inferior.  And i'd say that item 4 is what spawned
the OSS movement in the first place.

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