Billionaire internet entrepreneur and philanthropist Mark Shuttleworth on creating compelling software
Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Linux fame recently gave a presentation on creating an amazing software experience at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention.
Some of his major points were:
* Design and usability are incredibly important in terms of taking open source software to the next level.
* Everything should be crisp and clean.
* Selling services is one of the best ways to generate revenue for open source projects.
* Software provides incredible opportunities: “There have never been better opportunities to create wealth, better opportunities to change the world.”
* Predictable release cycles are significant in helping open source software gain greater prominence and usage.
* Software projects should develop innovation pipelines and use agile programming techniques.
Source:
http://www.thestandard.com/node/110409