“Recently, I wrote a review of the note-taking application
Tomboy. Though I find Tomboy exceptionally useful, I had a minor
issue with the inability to create new notebooks from within a
note. Within hours of the review appearing on Linux.com, Boyd
Timothy, one of the app’s developers mentioned in the article’s
comments that my idea had merit and said he would add the feature
to an upcoming build. True to his word, he did. This is a shining
example of one of the most valued yet sometimes overlooked features
of open source software: it really is for the people, by the
people.“To get a better understanding of why I’m so impressed by the
responsiveness of open source developers, consider the user’s point
of view. Say I decide one day that I want to index my entire
collection of CDs. I tell my friend Jack and he decides to do the
same thing…”