Re: [OS:N:] Developing for developers and users

[Matt Frye <mattfrye gmail com>]

Your argument would make more sense if they were actually improving on
something.  I don't remember Microsoft opening up any code so that OSS
developers could improve on it.  They _are_ reinventing the wheel by
writing applications that mimick MS Office, etc.

I think the point that Nielsen is making (and that Kim already made)
is that there _are_ better methods out there, but developers aren't
taking advantage of them.

"Open source software offers an excellent and underutilized avenue for
disseminating innovations in user interface." from Kim's Manifesto

Why imitate Microsoft's wheel when you can create a better one?  

MPF


On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:49:39 -0400, Etienne Goyer
<etienne goyer linuxquebec com> wrote:
> Matt Frye wrote:
> >  - when they (open source developers) turn to the general tools they
> > tend to be in the line of "let's implement what we already know" so they
> > will take Microsoft Office and they will clone it.
> 
> I don't really understand the stigma associated with that.  Why reinvent
> the wheel when you can improve it ?
> 
> 
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