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The Birth of a FOSS Application

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-video-squeamish-need-not-worry dept.

Joe Barr writes "Brice Burges explains why and how he created a new free software application, as well as what he learned from the birthing process, in a story on Linux.com. The story provides first-hand insights into the frustrations and satisfactions of developers working on free/open source projects. From the article: 'I'm always disappointed to hear open source project members say that they had "their developer" modify an aspect of the program without ever hearing from that developer or seeing any of the code. This is not progressive.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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  1. Re:Advertisement by XnavxeMiyyep · · Score: 0, Redundant

    An advertisement! Goodness no!

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    I put the 't' in electrical engineering.
  2. Art History by skazatmebaby · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I just find it interesting that there are two mailing list managers, both named similar to art movements of the 20th century.

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    Dada Mail - Program, Art Project or Absurdity?

  3. Re:Not really by renoX · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > I didn't see anything hypocritical about it.
    Well, you're not looking at it enough: so he didn't find any project providing the feature he wanted, why didn't he help any existing framework adding the feature?

    He doesn't explain it, but that's clearly because he wants to do things his way and he doesn't really care about the users or the other developers to help any existing framework.

    Then he is disappointed that people makes change to without sending patches?
    That's simple: they want to do things their way and they don't care really about him or the other users..

    So yes, his article show how an OSS project started, but it's also show why real progress for the users or in the FLOSS codebase is slow..