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Let's not start a too deep philosophic discussion, escaping from Lua, but...


I agree. The OSS market is a market economy. Only, it's weird in the way that if I now _were_ to actively market Hamster, that'd actually make my life _less_ comfortable (although I would be proud, of course), since that would incur maintenance requests, contributions, etc... and not bring in actual benefits to my enjoyment.

Just letting things be, moving to new issues, I live an easier life.

Something fishy in that. :) And something completely different from market society.

-asko


David Olofson kirjoitti 14.10.2006 kello 17.37:

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.


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