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The Increasing Importance of Community

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-does-community-matter dept.

Jono Bacon writes "With the success of Ubuntu and Fedora, and the advent of OpenSuSE and Freespire, are businesses and distributions paying more attention to the community? The Increasing Importance of Community discuss this change in focus. What do you all think? Is the community now more of a priority?"

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  1. A fairly obvious (unpatented) development model by erroneus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let the users find the bugs and develop the community version of the OS and take everything that works well and put it into your commercial offering. Seems to work for RedHat so far. But then again, they already had a strong community to begin with. Might work well for SuSE too. But Linspire? We'll see...

  2. Farmed to the bottom of the pile by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The psychology and social structure of a bunch of disparate programmers who are not on your payroll is a pill just too difficult to swallow, and one that is usually farmed to the bottom of the 'lets do this' pile.

    Are we all just difficult pills? Or are we the cure to the boring workplace?

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