Re:Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers
by jrockway on Saturday February 13, 2010 @08:13PM
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Apple has been making software for their hardware from day 1.
No user (statistically) cares about GPL 1, 2 or 3 or the possibilities some modular design opens for either hardware or software developers. They care about the UI not sucking. At the end of the day, that's the gap Android has to bridge.
The first leads to the second. I would hack on Android if I could actually use my changes on my own phone, which I would be able to do if Android were GPL 3. If I could hack on Android, the UI would be better. Multiply that by 1000+ other people in a similar situations, and you can see that GPL 3 would lead to what users actually care about.
Re:Nobody Hates Software More Than Software Developers
by pvg on Sunday February 14, 2010 @07:14AM
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The evidence for this is sorely lacking. Great multitudes contribute to the open source Gnome, KDE, GIMP and so forth and have for years. The UIs remain lackluster to at best.
No user (statistically) cares about GPL 1, 2 or 3 or the possibilities some modular design opens for either hardware or software developers. They care about the UI not sucking. At the end of the day, that's the gap Android has to bridge.
The first leads to the second. I would hack on Android if I could actually use my changes on my own phone, which I would be able to do if Android were GPL 3. If I could hack on Android, the UI would be better. Multiply that by 1000+ other people in a similar situations, and you can see that GPL 3 would lead to what users actually care about.