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A comment on Gnome: Staring into the abyss. Parent comment

Re:Gnome: Staring into the abyss by nmridul on Friday July 27, 2012 @05:41AM (#4300693)
That is exactly the problem and what the parent wants to convey. A developer (specially open source) is rarely interested in developing something that is not useful to him.
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Re:Gnome: Staring into the abyss by dsr_ on Friday July 27, 2012 @07:50AM (#4300941)
I would like to posit that the vast majority successful open-source projects are successful precisely because the developers are avid users.

Motivation goes beyond money.

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