faq  flatforty  contribute  subscribe  configure  search  rdf  main  parent	So open source it already... by David Fraser on Thursday 14/Oct/2004, @22:30 Unfortunately unless the tool you're promoting is open source, this just reads like an ad :-) Open Source it *first* and then you'll find developers to help. Otherwise people will think you haven't understood...	Related Links  ·   Articles on Interviews  ·   Also by David Fraser  ·   Contact author Thread Threshold: 10 comments 20 comments 30 comments 40 comments 50 comments 60 comments 70 comments 80 comments 90 comments 100 comments 110 comments 120 comments 130 comments 140 comments 150 comments 160 comments 170 comments 180 comments 190 comments 200 comments 300 comments 400 comments 500 comments 1000 comments
	The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. ( Reply ) Re: So open source it already... by Pete Gordon on Monday 18/Oct/2004, @06:13 I wont claim to completely understand the open source community. Mozilla, BSD, GPL, Apache licenses facinate me in their suttle differences, but it is a really big world--the whole open source community. Let alone getting into the whole area of people being motivated to develop, maintain, support, and get passionate about something without being compensated. I would love to talk to others that are passionate about the concept (usability software tools) and if they also have the skillset and time to contrbute to the code we can talk about that also. One person I have talked to along these lines is Andy Edmonds; he definitely has a passion for usability software tools and open source. Check out his stuff here... http://www.uzilla.org Sorry it read like an Ad for you, I really didn't want it to. Just talking about my code and experience. Thanks everybody for the comments! Take care! Pete Gordon usersfirst.com [ Reply To This | View ] Re: So open source it already... by David Fraser on Thursday 21/Oct/2004, @03:19 Cool glad you are thinking about it, keep thinking and talking to people, it would be great to see what progress you make on the idea [ Reply To This | View ] Re: So open source it already... by Frans Englich on Thursday 28/Oct/2004, @08:29 I can understand if people think it sounds like an ad, and that was something I thought about when /I/ initiated the interview. The reason to why I invited Pete to the Dot, was that I thought his topic was relevant to KDE; it involves usability, and we've had similar topics floating around; user testing at aKademy, Klar Alvens testing application K Dexecutor, and various remote protocols. Pete talks about his product too, but it's not without self consciousness, and it's easily distinguished from the other content -- I don't see the problems exist which a cloaked company plug article has. Cheers, Frans [ Reply To This | View ] Re: So open source it already... by ac on Thursday 28/Oct/2004, @09:38 Looks like you're on slashdot. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/20/1253240 [ Reply To This | View ]   The Fine Print: The previous comments are owned by whomever posted them. ( Reply )

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