The general public doesn’t adopt digital technologies. It adopts products.
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The general public doesn’t adopt digital technologies. It adopts products.
People don’t use TCP/IP and HTTP. They browse websites on the web with a browser.
They don’t use SMTP and IMAP. They send and receive emails.
One of the toughest challenges of our time is to develop appealing products and open standards simultaneously.
Those are primarily not technical but social and political problems.
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@thibaultamartin this is one of the issues that many open source projects have had for a long time: they are being started and developed by people who primarily care for the "how", the technical feasibility of an implementation, not so much about the "what" and the "why" of an every day user. Luckily, that has become better for some projects, but it's still a huge divide for others.
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Jens Finkhäuserreplied to Peter Jakobs ⛵ last edited by
@pjakobs @thibaultamartin Speaking of @interpeer specifically, it is a huge challenge. We have to develop the tech, and then also products later on. And whatever funding we may get has to reach all that way into the future.
The way I'm trying to tackle that is to get other sectors interested in the tech, so we may get some special purpose funding. It's not a straight line from here to there, then, but if I can sustain it, it'll be worth it.
But in the meantime folk keep asking when they can...
