On 15-Oct-06, at 4:58 PM, Navneet Karnani wrote:
it is exhilarating to watch the users developing and making most use of your code. I am not intending to flame you - this is the difference between the foss way of thinking and the closed source way
Well, my point was not whether people will tweak it or not, only that "end users" will not like that it can be tweaked at will. We will always see people tweak it for specific uses and purposes, and that is what I like about FOSS.
depends on your perception of who the end user is. In an accounting package, the end users are typically the owner of the business, or the person in charge of accounts and the chartered accountant. The clerks and data-entry operaters are not endusers. They will not have write access to the source code. i am specifically thinking of two cases - the computer literate businessman and the chartered accountant. The first can generate his custom reports and analysis and the second can simplify his accounting by adding checks. And both can set up a two-way interface to their spreadsheet programs.