Linked by Kroc Camen on Mon 24th Aug 2009 13:09 UTC
Linux user Tess Flynn joins us to follow up on the feedback from last week's episode about Xorg.
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2009-05-06
Big business can put up money to get the work it requires to be done, done.
No the problem is home users, and then the neighbor's apple pie is right. Why this works at all is because enough of a percentage of users are programmers, that have the time, skills, and are interested, to fix bugs that come up, and fill in feature the holes they can. This is complemented by what big business is doing, and all the shades of gray between the two extremes. The GPL stickiness holds it all together.
There are many things that could speed up development only home users care about. A big one I think is hardware companies playing ball, providing spec, if not actual engineering time. Binary blobs are a fudge, it's not really taking part, its being at the party but sitting in the corner talking to no one and being antisocial. They have pie, but no one else is allowed any, it's theirs only. It's why projects like Nouveau are so important, it's the process of kicking out those who don't want to be there anyway.