-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2008-12-07 at 12:20 +0100, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Where are those "many"? Every xth person that uses software can also develop software or at least maintain it.
Have you hard facts to support that? I have my number of friends. Some are engineers like me. Some do or can develop. None uses Linux. Crash goes your statistic. I have done developing. I have the skill. But I can not develop in Linux. Not really. I couldn't do any maintenance on something like KDE: it is too complex. Developing on Linux is a complex skill on itself, and I don't now of a "guide for beginners". Actually, I know of one (The Linux Programmer’s Guide, 1995, /usr/share/doc/Books/lpg-0.4.pdf), but developing of the book was stopped, it was never finished, and is outdated. I don't know which is the correct way of doing things in Linux, sets of functions to do what, etc. And if I learned some, Linux is a very fast moving target and it is difficult to keep the pace. A person wanting to become a dev, coming from an outside field, would have to invest months or years before becoming really useful. Just have a look at the number of projects wanting collaborators... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk7tqgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WTxwCgjgutsT4Unqccm/TFhqRBN7RT axsAn2oLcHjAz5phWXUvsEGdyqqG6EPK =/+hT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----