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

Matt Frye wrote:
> 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.

And these methods are ... ?

There is not much "innovation" per se in software, mostly incremental 
improvements.  I'm perfectly ok with that, standing on the shoulders of 
giants and all that.

My expectation toward OSS is not to have "innovative" softwares based on 
new paradigm, it is to have access to robust software that get the job 
done.  People want/need a word processor.  OpenOffice provide that.  I 
can't blame OO.o for providing a rip-off that happen to be useful to 
people.  Actually, it is the right thing to do.

Innovation is not mutually exclusive with usefulness, but I'd rather 
have a useful non-innovative software than a (mostly-) useless 
innovative one.

BTW, OSS *does* produce innovative stuff.  I think we can agreee that 
one of the most important breakthrough in how we use software and 
computer, in the past decade or so,  was the Web.  AFAIK, the Mosaic web 
browser and NCSA httpd *where* OSS.  The best implementation of a web 
browser and web server today *are* OSS.  This is just one example.

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