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What's Missing from Free Software?
dan.hunt asks: "Klaus Knopper was interviewed here and the interviewer, technobeast, asked: 'If you were asking the questions, what would be the 1st one you would ask?' Klaus answered in part 'What are you missing in the available Free Software, and how would you like to change that?'"
I really don't think they meant optional in the sense that the GPL software should be binary only. I think he meant optional in that each program should be packaged. Sure, many (maybe even most) programs come packaged -- for some version of some distribution. You run into lots of chances for incompatibilites that I rarely see on Windows. In fact, it's this irregularity in packaging that made me switch from Red Hat to Slackware. Slack plays much nicer with a hybrid of packages and source compiles.
No one is reaching out to the graphic design community. While they also have a tradition of copyleft, free fonts, and royalty free no cost photography, the two communities simply don't talk to each other.
(Which really isn't all that surprising since both of them tend to look down on each other as worthless parasites.)
I'm sorry, it looks good enough for programmers, but it doesn't look good. And there's a difference, especially if you want the masses to adopt it.
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