<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Andrew Norton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ktetch@gmail.com">ktetch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div><div class="im">On 5/12/2010 7:30 PM, Felipe Sanches wrote:<br>
> * I am one of the (several) developers of Inkscape, a vector graphics<br>
> free software tool;<br>
> * I was at a conference and met a nice guy who draws comics using Inkscape;<br>
> * He is not a programmer;<br>
> * He wanted a feature;<br>
> * I knew how to do it,<br>
> * 2 days later the feature was incorporated into Inkscape.<br>
><br>
> How much time would he have to wait for it if he had emailed Corel or Adobe?<br>
><br>
> Results:<br>
> * He is a happy non-coder user with a practical issue solved<br>
> * I am a coder happy about being helpful to others<br>
</div>* software gets more complex and more bloat to pander to every<br>
microgroup of users<br></blockquote><div>Bloat and leanness depend much, much more on the leaders of a project than on whether it's proprietary or open source. Inkscape, to its credit, has always struck me as a reasonably lean program. This is simply not a critique that can be applied ham-handedly to entire classes of software.</div>
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> This is a true story. You can see screenshots of the feature and his<br>
> blogpost about it (in brazilian portuguese) here:<br>
> <a href="http://nerdson.com/blog/connection-closed/" target="_blank">http://nerdson.com/blog/connection-closed/</a><br>
><br>
> Happy hacking,<br>
> Felipe Sanches<br>
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