Gregory's Server@neauoire Is it because it's unusual to think of making software as personal tools instead of for a broad audience of non-experts?
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  @calutron Could be, a lot of the DIY software culture relies on a monoculture of frameworks, so it makes for software that very much looks and fells like commercial equivalents. But it feels like that's by design, it's like a lot of things, keeping people scared and ignorant benefits markets. It's like that for a lot of things these days, don't learn plumbing, you're going to kill yourself and flood your house and your won't be insured! Software's the same. @neauoire Yeah that makes sense. I think people see things as products unless you explicitly frame it otherwise, like: https://archive.org/details/How.To.Build.Your.Own.Living.Structures.1974.Ken.Isaacs |
@calutron Yes, it's a bit unusual to tell people that they don't need software shops, and that they can make their own tools.
Making things seem complex when they are simple, is the best trick of all. It makes for subservient customers who think they need your products.
There seems to be two schools of thoughts:
- One that goes: the more users think alike, the easier they are to market to.
- Another that goes: the more diversely people think, the more resilient a community is.
@calutron Yes, it's a bit unusual to tell people that they don't need software shops, and that they can make their own tools.
Making things seem complex when they are simple, is the best trick of all. It makes for subservient customers who think they need your products.
There seems to be two schools of thoughts: