[OT] Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>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

Most UIs suck, proprietary or OSS.

>> 2) Documentation
>> 3) Feature-centric development

This is bad?

>> 4) Programming for the self

As opposed programming for obsolescence to force people to by
``updates'' in the vain hope of getting bugs fixed?

>> 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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