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What Does a User Cost?
Seth Godin has some advice to marketeers and businesses that open source proejcts should take to heart as well. Godin writes today about embracing the "lifetime value" of a customer. Open source projects may not have customers, but it pays to think about the lifetime value of users as well.
Godin writes "Instead of comparing what [...]
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Providing useful feedback
Release early, release often. That mantra has served open source really well because it provides an opportunity for developers to get in and provide feedback (and patches) through the lifecycle of a project, and not when something is completely finished and would require huge amounts of efforts to fix problems that could be caught early.
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Should software reviewers be filing bugs?
Before I joined Novell, I spent years writing software reviews -- mostly, but not exclusively, about open source and free software projects. In that time, I ran into hundreds if not thousands of bugs. I might have filed 20 bugs in that time, and that's being generous. A couple of reasons for that:
When I first [...]
Posted in Journalism, Linux, Linux.com, Open Source, Writing, openSUSE Also tagged bugs, bugzilla, foss, Linux 9 Comments
Crowdsourcing the KDE Web Site