The Eclipse project actively encourages its users and clients to log bugs and change requests as well as vote and comment on them through their Bugzilla.
IIRC, this concept was encouraged by ERS in Cathedral... It would be nice to see other mainstream OSS projects such as GNOME actively embrace this model of community involvement.
That being said, I think GNOME has done some wonderful things in the past, and as far as I'm concerned the desktop improves with every release, keep up the good work!
Browser Hijackers? What's that?
Wait a minute, I'm running FireFox that must be an IE feature. I'd offer you my sympathies, but you probably wouldn't believe me.
... and then you're going to watch every damned episode, buy them on DVD, and complain bitterly when the series is cancelled. Five years from now there will be a Save Star Wars campaign. Just watch...
Just hope they don't figure out you would mortgage your house and hock the car just to buy the action figures all over again or you could kiss the whole economy goodbye.
15 years ago or more, the only people using computers were generally more technically inclined than the average and very motivated. Or they didn't accomplish very much!
That's the point.
If you want high levels of adoption in the 21st century you have to aim a little lower.
A good question, but getting people like my kids to want to use Linux means they have to be able to do what they want and need to do. OpenOffice is solving lots of this, so is gaim and FireFox. Can you imagine trying to teach a 12 year old to use GIMP? I showed my kids ms paint when they were less than 10 and they got it, this would not be true of the GIMP. Any application that requires a whole website as a tutorial is not going to attract the casual users.
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There is nothing trivial about regular expressions unless you use them daily.
I LOVE Adblock, it's the best thing for the web since... I don't know when, and I've been on the web daily since 1994.
The website however sucks dead dingo's kidneys. WTF is with that grey font?
Is it dying? Don't know, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it. (i.e. Fix the website, it be broke...)
The Eclipse project actively encourages its users and clients to log bugs and change requests as well as vote and comment on them through their Bugzilla.
IIRC, this concept was encouraged by ERS in Cathedral... It would be nice to see other mainstream OSS projects such as GNOME actively embrace this model of community involvement.
That being said, I think GNOME has done some wonderful things in the past, and as far as I'm concerned the desktop improves with every release, keep up the good work!
Foolish mortal...
Browser Hijackers? What's that? Wait a minute, I'm running FireFox that must be an IE feature. I'd offer you my sympathies, but you probably wouldn't believe me.
... and then you're going to watch every damned episode, buy them on DVD, and complain bitterly when the series is cancelled. Five years from now there will be a Save Star Wars campaign. Just watch...
Just hope they don't figure out you would mortgage your house and hock the car just to buy the action figures all over again or you could kiss the whole economy goodbye.15 years ago or more, the only people using computers were generally more technically inclined than the average and very motivated. Or they didn't accomplish very much!
That's the point.
If you want high levels of adoption in the 21st century you have to aim a little lower.