DeRose: Designing pro creative apps (Part 1-3)
DeRose: Designing pro creative apps (Part 1-3)
Jason Gerard DeRose, a developer with Novacut, is working on a collaborative
video editor for Ubuntu. DeRose has been blogging about the project
and lessons learned along the way. This is from part
3; "Please don't lecture artists about how they should be using
free-software for ideological reasons. Instead, talk to them about how
you're going to build them superior creative tools. Many well-intending
free-software advocates have made this mistake. I know I've been guilty of
this. But as a community, we must become more sympathetic to artists. If
we're asking them to switch to inferior tools, we're asking them to make a
totally unreasonable sacrifice. You cannot expect artists to toss their
child in the river to get a new pair of sneakers.
" You might want
to start with part
1 and part
2. (Thanks to Paul Wise)