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

Thu Oct 5 13:16:25 EDT 2017

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:57 PM, John Franklin via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> On Oct 5, 2017, at 12:40 PM, Sean Korb via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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      Maybe you will be the one to do the fixing. ;)

Jokes apart, sometimes I have seen projects where someone actually
goes through the trouble to find a solution and make a patch just to
see it rejected without an explanation and the issue becoming a
wontfix. Not going to say that has or not happened with me...

>> 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.
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> 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.
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      I understand your venting; I keep trying to convince a few
artists friends of mine to get involved and so far no bites.

> jf
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714104
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