Developerfests vs Installfests

[Scott Elcomb]

On 6/29/06, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 6/29/06, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > You guys are missing the point of how free software has come to be in
> > the first place.  Without people volunteering to write code, there
> > would be no Linux, no GCC, no GNU tools, no X.org, no PostgreSQL, no
> > Apache, no Perl.
> >
> > There would be no Linux distributions, and there would be no TLUG.
> >
> > Admittedly, it all exists, now, and people that are incapable of
> > imagining working on it "for free" can sponge off the efforts of all
> > the volunteers.  Indeed, people that are unwilling to do anything
> > without being paid can use the software without paying the people that
> > were willing.
> >
> Many do non-developers do send bug reports or write documentation
> (e.g. on webpages or on wikis) though.


Coding is overrated IMO.  It's cool, but overrated.

There are so many other aspects to developing products that
"non-programmers" are needed for.  Media, PR, organization, project
management - these are all things sucessful projects require, and most
need help with.

Just my $0.02  =)

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