focus for this week: aspects of neuroscience
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Influences on software acceptance
From I ask questions
So, what influences the wide acceptance of a program?
- licence
- programming language
- quality
- marketing, how hot is the topic?
- competition
- human factors: e.g. personal (dis)likes
- ...
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licence
The journey started with:
- rantifesto talking about creative commons nd + nc
- see also here and Defining Noncommercial report published
which then lead to:
and the question what a dev might choose:
- wide distribution of her program
- money
language
After talking shortly how data can be stolen always (e.g. in diaspora)
and then reminding how the selection of the programming language (Ruby) influences the amount of self hosted pods (e.g. many cheap hosters still offer only php)
Ruby to php:
quality
in various aspects, be it software (doc, help, tutorial, ...),
humans, ...
- e.g. many problems, but helpful people in chat
competition
GNU social seems dead and one person told to use Status.net instead.
info
in progress...
regroup in external/internal factors from various viewpoints
- software creator
- user
- ...
