Open Office self sabotage. Luis Villa: “In my humble opinion, OOo should to take a page from the mozilla folks- take a release cycle (or more) and focus exclusively on improving performance and usability. No new features. Even remove features if necessary. This is what firefox has done over mozilla, and that’s done wonders for firefox, both in user uptake and hacker uptake.†I couldn’t agree more.
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Proud to be a loner. Patrick Logan is an isolationist, and apparently so am I: “I’d rather have a widely adopted shared-nothing environment. That is the model of the future. The shared-memory model *is* the current model but there is plenty of evidence we’ve been done with it for some time. Another five years or so will be necessary for this to really sink in.â€
The 1% rule. Charles Arthur: “So what’s the conclusion? Only that you shouldn’t expect too much online. Certainly, to echo Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come. The trouble, as in real life, is finding the builders.â€
Charles is talking about online content, YouTube and other favs du jour. I’m ripping the statement and mixing it into open source. Did you ever read the Linux source code? Did you ever patch Apache? It’s OK if you didn’t, only 1% need to care about that. But look at what those 1% can do!
Digg users are dumber than goldfish. (Via Jeremy Zawodny)