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z2008-02-01- Goranson Outlining Ecosystem
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Jun 30, 2008 3:09 pm |
Ted Goranson on what's need for a healthy future for Out Lining. I think we need three big things to keep the outliner-using application community strong. We need better XML standards than OPML. We need a revolution in user interfaces (UI), adding more advanced outliner-specific capabilities. And now I add a third: we need a wider range of workable Business Model-s. In the last case, he focuses on a particular example: Mori tried an innovative business model: the developer put the users in charge of development with a fairly elaborate feature request and voting system; he was extremely open, down to even reporting unit sales on his Web site; and he gave away the core framework of Mori in expectations that it would spawn an open source community. This failed. [Hog Bay Software] is one man only, and he just could not make a living. He had to go get a "real job," (DayJob) working on Mori after hours. Eventually, he sold Mori to another developer, Apokalypse Software, where it may thrive.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog