[p2p-research] is open source design inferior

[Ryan Lanham]

Interesting argument.  I'm not qualified to answer formally, but I think of
Mozilla versus Explorer...  Being customer driven does not imply not being
FLOSS.  It implies having a differing governance approach.

Ryan

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> this article poses an important issue,
> http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/07/open-source-design-and-the-openofficemouse/
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> that I would like to see discussed on our blog, by someone familiar with
> design dynamics in floss communities,
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> my take is that this may be inherent in free software, because they don't
> care about the end-user, and therefore, separate commercial entities may
> still be needed,
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> I see Ubuntu vs. Debian as proving that point,
>
> Michel
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