Eh, don't misunderstand me. I'm not looking for a better blogging system personally. Bryar does everything I want. But I'd been meaning to improve Bryar so that it supports multiple users, and put a nice web front end on editing and posting, and causing Six Apart pain has become my motivation.
– Simon Cozens
What ever happen to every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch?
Causing someone or some company pain as motivation for free software is not an itch – it's a neurosis.
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<p>Eh, don't misunderstand me. I'm not looking for a better blogging system personally. Bryar does everything I want. But I'd been meaning to improve Bryar so that it supports multiple users, and put a nice web front end on editing and posting, and causing Six Apart pain has become my motivation.<br /><a href="http://blog.simon-cozens.org/bryar.cgi/id_6735?comments=1"><em>– Simon Cozens</em></a></p>
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<p>What ever happen to <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s02.html"><q>every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch?</q></a> Causing someone or some company pain as motivation for free software is not an itch – it's a neurosis.</p>
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