Archive for June 22nd, 2005
Open Development
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
My dad told one of his coworkers about zenphoto and how I’m developing it—in an open transparent process, on the blog, encouraging user feedback and comments (and I do! keep on commenting!)—and I was surprised that this guy thought it was a revolutionary way to develop software.
I read Michael Heilemann’s post about how blogs are revolutionizing the world, and it didn’t really make sense to me until today. I thought, “Gee, this really is different.” I mean, how else would you—a complete stranger, the proverbial and mythical “user” proprietary developers talk about—actually have a direct link to the developer of the software you might use someday.
I think this is revolutionary. Tell me I’m wrong.
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