“To make it clear: I am not against Open Source Software, in
fact, I am for it. But I am increasingly frustrated with Open
Source software written by hobbyists; hobbyists who write a
specific application or library because they need a specific
function out of their applications, for their own needs and only
their own needs. Here’s what happened:“A few days ago I was in the middle of a cyclone in the
desktop-devel-list gnome mailing list asking the gnome devs to
include the Gnome users in the process of evolving Gnome (because
currently feature requests are getting very much ignored on their
bugzilla). I just wanted the Gnome users to be asked (whatever the
way, not just by using a poll) what are their most needed features
and having the Gnome devs implement the ones that makes sense to
implement. This way, more users would be happier about the
apparently ‘closed’ nature of Gnome’s development…”
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