[TriLUG] demoing F/OSS innovation(s)

[Brian McCullough]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:54:13AM -0400, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
> 
> First of all, there is always a lot of talk from
> detractors of F/OSS that all free / open source
> software just copies (poorly) commercial software.
> They'll usually use something like OpenOffice.org as
> an "example" and say that it's just a poor clone of
> MS Office.


One of the "issues" that I have heard raised in the past, is that the
problem with F/OSS is that it is driven by the developers' desires,
rather than market forces, thereby resulting in a lot of developer
tools, but nothing for the "users."


Brian