[TriLUG] Oracle Tells The White House: Stop Hiring Silicon Valley People & Ditch Open Source | Techdirt

[John Franklin via TriLUG]

> On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:40 PM, Sean Korb via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> I've never been able to figure out if Open Source is king of "Good
> Enough" or king of "That's not good enough, let's fix it".  They seem
> diametrically opposed but at it's core: you must have both.

I’ve seen both kinds of projects.  Dia for a long time was touted as a replacement for Visio, but was not even in the same league.  I admit, I haven’t looked at it in a while.  Maybe it has gotten better.  It seems to me they got to a Good Enough stage and just stopped.

Geary is a promising mail client, if the developers of it could actually get around to writing it.  There is a bug I’ve been following on it for over a year about the accounts dialog being too tall for small screens [1].  It shouldn’t be that hard to fix, but nothing really has happened with it.  There has been some discussion, but no one has gotten to the “lets fix it” stage.

> I do think the administration would do well to hire more humanities
> folks and I am astonished at how undervalued they have been lately WRT
> tech.  Even in Open Source, you need both.

That’s the truth.  I’m good at writing code.  I am not good at writing content, and I am awful with graphic design.  Those are two areas where I know I need to get some help as a self-employed independent.

jf
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714104
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John Franklin
franklin at elfie.org



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