http://tieguy.org/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/ Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:26:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://tieguy.org/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-27323 Advogato - Recent Blog Entries Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:49:48 +0000 http://207.210.245.69/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/#comment-27323 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] to the decadence discussion, except I think I’ve already said what needed to be said three years ago and a year and a half ago and [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] to the decadence discussion, except I think I’ve already said what needed to be said three years ago and a year and a half ago and [...]

]]> http://tieguy.org/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-27321 Luis Villa’s Blog / decadence Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:16:07 +0000 http://207.210.245.69/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/#comment-27321 [...] to the decadence discussion, except I think I’ve already said what needed to be said three years ago and a year and a half ago and [...] [...] to the decadence discussion, except I think I’ve already said what needed to be said three years ago and a year and a half ago and [...]

]]> http://tieguy.org/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-5256 Luis Villa’s Blog » followup to yesterday’s post on GNOME 10.0×10.0 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:36:27 +0000 http://207.210.245.69/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/#comment-5256 [...] So, I like GNOME 2.x. I think it is really useful for a lot of people; we likely have at least a million users of various stripes, probably more. But I don’t think we get to 10×10 (or anything like it) without radically changing the user experience. We just don’t have a persuasive reason for Windows users or Windows developers to switch without radical change and improvement. (My posts in early July have some thinking along those lines, and in April of 2005 I listed some potential directions experimenters could go.) So yeah, I think a new gnome software paradigm (almost certainly in parallel with, not as a replacement for Enterprise GNOME, aka 2.x) is important for the long-term health of gnome, the community and the project. (The overarching project for Enterprise GNOME, OLPC, Maemo, etc., being ‘make free software the primary computer interface of the masses’, more or less.) [...] [...] So, I like GNOME 2.x. I think it is really useful for a lot of people; we likely have at least a million users of various stripes, probably more. But I don’t think we get to 10×10 (or anything like it) without radically changing the user experience. We just don’t have a persuasive reason for Windows users or Windows developers to switch without radical change and improvement. (My posts in early July have some thinking along those lines, and in April of 2005 I listed some potential directions experimenters could go.) So yeah, I think a new gnome software paradigm (almost certainly in parallel with, not as a replacement for Enterprise GNOME, aka 2.x) is important for the long-term health of gnome, the community and the project. (The overarching project for Enterprise GNOME, OLPC, Maemo, etc., being ‘make free software the primary computer interface of the masses’, more or less.) [...]

]]> http://tieguy.org/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-5226 Luis Villa’s Blog » Dumbness of Crowds and GNOME 3.0 Wed, 03 Jan 2007 19:46:47 +0000 http://207.210.245.69/blog/2005/04/20/tue-19-apr-2005/#comment-5226 [...] I wrote last year: I’m more and more convinced that we’re not going to get to 3.0 as an organization- we’re too afraid to fail (for reasonable reasons), we have too few resources, we are too enamored with planning,etc., etc.- I’m now fairly convinced that 3.0 is most likely to happen when someone goes out, experiments, probably fails, but get people interested in their experiment (and maybe their failure) and gets momentum about finishing the experiment and turning it into reality. That experimentation will light a fire under GNOME’s ass and encourage new blood as well. [...] [...] I wrote last year: I’m more and more convinced that we’re not going to get to 3.0 as an organization- we’re too afraid to fail (for reasonable reasons), we have too few resources, we are too enamored with planning,etc., etc.- I’m now fairly convinced that 3.0 is most likely to happen when someone goes out, experiments, probably fails, but get people interested in their experiment (and maybe their failure) and gets momentum about finishing the experiment and turning it into reality. That experimentation will light a fire under GNOME’s ass and encourage new blood as well. [...]

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