Re: Why Aren't Open Source Tools Being Considered?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

This may be the reason why OS apps have not been satisfying to me.
In my experience, programmers may be great at making things happen
in an app, but they're terrible at determining what things should happen.
I don't *want* programs I use to be loaded with features that are in
there because someone decided they'd "just be really cool."  In fact,
that's my biggest gripe about many of the corporate apps I've had to
use in the past - they're tending to move away from being tools designed
to do one thing really well and toward having everything but the kitchen
sink in them because nobody is in charge of deciding what the target
function is, keeping the development focused on that target and keeping
out stuff that someone wants to add just because it'd be "really cool."
IOW, corporate apps are starting to look more and more like OS ones.
Their developers all need someone with a clear vision to "tell them 
what to do."

My successes in using non-corporate software has been in the world of
shareware, where often an entire program is the result of one person's
desire and determination to create something that will do one thing well.

Gene Kim-Eng



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Castro" <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com>

A third, and from what I have seen fairly common, incentive is that
programmers get to help run the show. They're frusturated with being
told what to do, even when they know that there are features that
would really help (or yes, just be really cool) that they can't get
the go-ahead to implement. Getting into FOSS, you can (usually) choose
what you want to work on, work on it when you want to, and for how
long you want to. That sense of self-management offsets the feeling of
being a grunt at your "day-job." There's also a sense of real
collaboration of equals, rather than the dominating "collaboration"
that goes on in a typical software company, in which management can
still override a good (or cool) idea.




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