Well, in a sense those ones don't matter. In fact one could argue that one of the good things about open source is that when Fred produces his bit of software, if anyone downloade it and finds it useful, at least they aren't completely shafted when they find it won't run on Windows Wombat and Fred has long since lost interest and moved house and email address.
Clearly, as with anything (music / fiction ) there is the problem of finding the good stuff.
It is not the one developer one user ones that I mind. It is the ones where there are a lot of blowhards on the mailing lists talking about their wonderful plans for version 2.0 which lead one to download it only to discover that essentially it doesn't sodding work. And, of course, they have the perfect right to do this, my objection is primarily an aesthetic one about the tragic waste of human effort and ingenuity.
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Date: 2007-11-27 10:01 pm (UTC)Clearly, as with anything (music / fiction ) there is the problem of finding the good stuff.
It is not the one developer one user ones that I mind. It is the ones where there are a lot of blowhards on the mailing lists talking about their wonderful plans for version 2.0 which lead one to download it only to discover that essentially it doesn't sodding work. And, of course, they have the perfect right to do this, my objection is primarily an aesthetic one about the tragic waste of human effort and ingenuity.