Rev vs. AJAX... Ajax vs TAOO

[Alex Tweedly]

xbury.cs at clearstream.com wrote:

>Did Linus write the help first or the code for linux before people started 
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>collaborating with him? Did people ask him "what is it for?"
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No, first thing he had was an "elevator pitch". In his case, he didn't 
need to create it specifically as an elevator pitch - but what he had 
was a simple, 30-50 second description of what he was doing that was 
understandable to almost any potential collaborator.

"I'm doing an open-source, freely licensed version of Unix - it will be 
library and API compatible so all your code, shell scripts and general 
usage will work on it."

TAOO doesn't, as far as I know, have that. I've not managed to get a 
good "feel" for what TAOO does, or what it would be like to use, or how 
it would change the everyday tasks to be done in developing an app using 
TAOO. And I can't go download something and try it out .... which you 
could do with Linux a long time before it was really "done".

I suspect that's largely because of the second reason - Linux was an 
incremental project, that most people became familiar with somewhat 
early on. TAOO has been going for years, so it's already a big, 
multi-faceted, multi-tentacled "thing" - and so is much harder to 
describe. It's difficult (if not impossible) for you to extract a 
"bite-sized chunk" of it to complete (i.e. get out of beta, release it, 
maybe even partly document it and thereby attract co-developers and 
users), because doing so would lose one of its primary current benefits 
to you, namely its completeness.

 I wish I could tell you how to resolve that problem, but I'm afraid I 
can't ....


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