Re: Prime Mover v0.1

[David Olofson <david@...>]

On Saturday 14 October 2006 16:04, Asko Kauppi wrote:
[...]
> This is the end of Open Source projects; they become "ready" and  
> still no-one uses them.  That's life. :)

Well, obviously, for any product, whether commercial or free, 
Free/Open Source or whatever, there has to be a demand for such a 
product if it's going to be "successful".

However, that's just a small part of the mechanics behind this. There 
is marketing, documentation, cost of migration, severity of 
disadvantages with competing products, various subjective aspects 
etc.

Sometimes, it seems like it's just dumb luck that makes one product 
more popular than another, though most of the time, that's probably 
just because the real reasons are not obvious.


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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