[Discuss] Photo Organization Review -- slides from my presentation last evening

[Patrick]

On Sat, 17 May 2008 07:31:32 -0700
"Lloyd Budd" wrote:

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Here is the slide show of the slides I used in my presentation last evening:
> >
> >  http://alpha1.myjalbum.net/Photo_Organization_Reviews/slides/S01.html
> 
> Hi Murray,
> 
> I looked through the slides. Awesome research, it no doubt was a great
> presentation!

It was.  :-)

> 
> I currently don't use any Photo Organizer, because being a GNOME boy,
> I'm still waiting for f-spot to sort out its fundamental time data
> corruption issue -- at least that is who I view the issue:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2008-April/msg00058.html
> 
> f-spot is otherwise brilliant software, but this bug is one of a class
> I call "the open source surprise", where developer priorities, often
> personally motivated, misplace serious usability issues.

Seems that would happen more often with closed-source software,
wouldn't it?

I can remember several otherwise good applications for the Mac,
with a few serious but totally neglected bugs.  Bug reports from
a large proportion of users went unanswered, because the features
they interfered with weren't important to the author[s].

Anyone can patch a free program, but those patches still might
not be adopted by its main developers.  Still, if not, you can
always fork off [please excuse my language].  Not so with closed
software.

Anyway, I'm just guessing about how these things are *supposed* to
work, not necessarily how they do; from theory, not practise.


> 
> Thanks,
> Lloyd

Ditto,

Patrick.

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