now now Evans, kindly don't put words in my mouth. I have nothing against open source. as a matter of fact I use it heavily. I browse with firefox, and even used it from version 0.4 when it was not even called firefox. I use filezilla for ftp. I run several blogs on wordpress. I host several sites on a debian box. I run ubuntu on a vm. php is a language I have excellent grasp of, as is python and java. I've been using mysql for years, as well as interbase and firebird. how is it then that I have something against open source? please gentlemen let's not toss around allegations. I'll repeat again. I see no reason why I have to exclusively use open source or exclusively use closed source software and tools. I find this endless debate pointless and tiresome. let everyone find their skill set and use it to deliver value for users. let our solutions and software speak for themselves. this must be the only industry that spends disproportionate amounts of energy and time arguing about tools rather than actually developing solutions. command buttons work the same way in visual basic, delphi, lazarus, java and c. users don't know and don't care how it was built. lousy software can be written in any technology. being open source or closed does not automatically grant software features and utility! let the applications speak for themselves. let users vote with their preferences and wallets. it is the epitome of double speak to preach for choice and then go on to place restrictions! On 9/28/09, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
Very true. But the code is the foundation of all other involvements. No code, no community. Bad code, bad community. And since this is (mostly?) a developer list, I assume (perhaps wrongly) that that is where people interests/abilities lie.
I like what you're saying: what other non-coding opportunities exist? I hope documentation isn't one of them cuz I don't know any one who likes doing it. Perhaps filing good bug reports? Helping out in newbie forums?
saidi
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com>wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
I once asked the same question to Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu's "benevolent dictator" ( the occasion was UbuntuBelowZero developer preparations for Ubuntu 6.04). I'd noticed that 99.9% of the developers in the room were white so I asked him how it was that an "African" distro (as it was being marketed then) had virtually no African developers.
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