by Dave | Jul 19, 2009 | Improving Apps
The company (or project) that figures out how to do this will win. That’s what Matt Asay says on his CNet blog. What to know what he said that about? He said that open source projects need to: determine what average users want and then to translate this into...
by Dave | Jun 4, 2009 | Improving Apps
As I read Matt Asay’s blog post this morning on the use of proprietary tools in the advocacy of open source ones, I recognize that my foray into the Mac world changed me quite a bit. Almost from day one using a Mac I was shelling out money to get an app. They...
by Dave | Dec 2, 2008 | Improving Apps
I’ve been listening this morning to a linux podcast and one of the participants mentioned how he can’t imagine paying for Linux or entering a serial for software he’s installing on Linux. This is a bad attitude. Look at two of the most recognizable...
by Dave | Apr 10, 2002 | Improving Apps
Too often, open source programs have bizarre, unhelpful names. This needs to change, at least for desktop applications, for Linux to really take off in that market. For all my love for Linux, software names in Linux are probably the most cryptic, arcane names...
