Re: Prime Mover v0.1

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

Let's not start a too deep philosophic discussion, escaping from Lua,  
but...


I agree.  The OSS market is a market economy.  Only, it's weird in  
the way that if I now _were_ to actively market Hamster, that'd  
actually make my life _less_ comfortable (although I would be proud,  
of course), since that would incur maintenance requests,  
contributions, etc... and not bring in actual benefits to my enjoyment.

Just letting things be, moving to new issues, I live an easier life.

Something fishy in that. :)  And something completely different from  
market society.

-asko


David Olofson kirjoitti 14.10.2006 kello 17.37:

> On Saturday 14 October 2006 16:04, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> [...]
> > This is the end of Open Source projects; they become "ready" and
> > still no-one uses them.  That's life. :)
>
> Well, obviously, for any product, whether commercial or free,
> Free/Open Source or whatever, there has to be a demand for such a
> product if it's going to be "successful".
>
> However, that's just a small part of the mechanics behind this. There
> is marketing, documentation, cost of migration, severity of
> disadvantages with competing products, various subjective aspects
> etc.
>
> Sometimes, it seems like it's just dumb luck that makes one product
> more popular than another, though most of the time, that's probably
> just because the real reasons are not obvious.
>
>
> //David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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