And so it begins. Chad has made a plea to Microsoft to help sort out issues with the latest World Wind release and Vista. The new security features are causing problems and I suspect that World Wind won’t be the last project to have to deal with it. So far the QGIS project has yet to get an experience report from anybody using Vista. Who knows what that will bring….
A great divide separates the typical Open Source developer and user.
Each has differing expectations, assumptions, and priorities. The interaction between developer and user can be helpful, cordial, confrontational, or antagonistic.
Of course this all stems from being on opposite sides of the fence. The key to a successful relationship is communication and understanding (not exactly a new revelation). Unfortunately its not possible for one developer to communicate directly with thousands of users. So developers resort to blogs, websites, forums, and mailing lists in an attempt to foster some sort of dialogue. This works, although it can become so consuming that development time vanishes away in an attempt to keep up the lines of communication.
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