Re: Presentation: Adoption and Trends

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Here is a presentation I just finished for a talk in Japan. It
> covers:

> Comments welcome. I leave on Tuesday morning.

Slide 6: How does open-source software bring "democracy" to software
development? The core group may be benevolent, but a benevolent
aristocracy is not a democracy by any means.

Slide 14: The list of similar projects is a little baron -- I sent a
list of ~10 to -advocacy a little while ago which I can resend if
necessary/useful.

Slide 15: Josh Berkus, despite being an all-round nice guy, is not a
"PostgreSQL core developer" AFAIK :-)

You might want to include NetBSD among the "distributed leadership"
projects on slide 15. Also, are you sure that calling XFree86 governed
by a "corporate council" is fair?

In slide 18, you might want to mention that a drawback of OSS is that
sometimes features that developers don't find interesting (such as a
native Win32 port or a better upgrade story) aren't implemented as
quickly as they might be in a commercial environment.

There is a typo on slide 31: s/Practial/Practical/

-Neil