Am Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2008 12:42:29 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
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.
Then you do not know anything about statistics, normal distribution and the error you make with a sample of >1000 people. I wouldnot even reagard 1000 KDE3 users as many, but there you go. Please do not ask for facts, if they lie within the basic rules of statistics, but you yourself claim many and do not provide any facts, in fact you cannot even present the fraction of developers every group of users has.
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Guide, 1995, /usr/share/doc/Books/lpg-0.4.pdf), but developing of the book was stopped, it was never finished, and is outdated.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.
Ok, if you think that your statistics-skills are better than mine, how come you fail to see that if there were many one would not need to become a developer, because there were people developing KDE3 and if there were many who would like to continue that way, some of those would think so too. So where are those and what it the probability that there are none although so m any prefer the KDE3 way? Further you completely forgot about the business. If there were enough users, companies would pay developers to fork KDE3. Sven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org