[p2p-research] is open source design inferior

[Ryan Lanham]

As you know, I am no enemy of private enterprise nor even profit.  The
availability of a market allows for lots of solutions to co-exist.  But I
think the idea of not-for-profit foundation...not unlike the one you have
founded, allows for governance, planning and openness with very good
competitive strengths.  I think the idea that some centralized decision
making and planning occurs isn't a bad thing.

I suppose my own naive hope is that civil society always comes on strong.

Ryan



On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> the argument could be that since the motivation of FLOSS is self-governed,
> and designed to develop solutions for one own's problems, it would then to
> ignore customer issues, since most of its first users would be tech-savvy
> ... this could explain both the failure of the linux desktop, and the
> success of Ubuntu once a private partner started to play a role in it,
>
> I find that argument quite credible, given my own difficulties in chosen
> free software, which is usually more difficult to install etc..
>
> Michel
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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/
>>>
>>> that I would like to see discussed on our blog, by someone familiar with
>>> design dynamics in floss communities,
>>>
>>> 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,
>>>
>>> I see Ubuntu vs. Debian as proving that point,
>>>
>>> Michel
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