I'm not sure the two are mutually exclusive there. Commercial doesn't negate committees (I've been involved in a fair few), and open source doesn't have to be a committee effort.
I blogged about the problem as I perceive it with existing efforts - they always touted themselves as 'the open source version' and most non-developers and non-technologists don't care about that.
They care if it's easy to use and has reached critical mass amongst their networks.
There are definitely similar studies in other countries, although I don't have them to hand. I did just see a survey for the UK which put the cheapest areas to live with house prices 3.8 times the average wage up to about 9.8 the average wage in the most expensive, and the cost of housing and rent has rocketed up since I first started renting 10 years ago...
After the mortgage there's not a lot left to spend on anything else!
Really bizarre. I totally get that searching needs improvement in various areas, but Siri etc are just search via audio.
The other option is to give up all your privacy to allow tracking, but as you see on a daily basis, we're a long way from contextual understanding that really works.
SO without search you'd be relying on asking Hackernews/Twitter etc for every single enquiry you have...
I'm not sure that's possible with Techcrunch - I know Mashable has invested in journalists to try and deliver deeper content, but Techcrunch isn't set up to operate that way, and the fact that every writer is pretty much autonomous means that it's a nightmare to try and even correct inaccuracies...
That's true, but it's also the case that unecessary forking can lead to confusion and potentially damages both projects by splitting the support between them.
After all, is it Open Source, or Free Software ;)
(written on a machine running Windows, sat next to a machine running Ubuntu)
Hi. Just to clarify, Jay and Mike were important members of the team, but not the sole developers involved, either internally, or from the wider development community.
There's nothing wrong with forking, and it's clearly allowed under the GPL licence, and is legal and above board.
But there are good reasons for forking - for instance, if the code has languished for ages, and there are forks which split the potential development and user community. There's always two sides to every story, and I'm involved with Jigoshop, but certainly Jigoshop/Jigowatt supported a team of developers to work on a project which resulted in two of the team leaving just as the stable version was about to be released, there was a low offer of acquisition of copyright of the product, and an offer of collaboration which had certain conditions attached to it, so would not have been workable, and forking is being used as a business mechanism, rather than a method of evolving the software
It's not a million miles from my preferred solution to a similar problem.
I tend to exist in RSS, so wouldn't remove much by syncing with the rest of the web.
But what would really help is a way to check for duplication between my subscriptions, and the people I follow who share the same article.
I often see 3 or 4 of the same article appearing in my feeds, which is really annoying, as well as wasting time...
I'm following the call for a clear pricing structure - I manage a lot of Adword accounts as part of my day job, and I'd be keen to look at anything that makes it simpler and easier. But only if it's also cost-effective...
I blogged about the problem as I perceive it with existing efforts - they always touted themselves as 'the open source version' and most non-developers and non-technologists don't care about that.
They care if it's easy to use and has reached critical mass amongst their networks.