Comments on: Open sourcing genealogy for Linux first? Bad move

Genealogy that relies on Linux users is never going to reach its full potential.

[all-usernames-in-use]

GRAMPS works for Windows. Most Windows users won't be looking for the most cutting edge version; they want what works. Also, open source projects, especially those run as hobby projects, do not need to measure success by the number of users they have. This is a carryover from the proprietary software world. Often the success is measured by number of new developers per time period or number of developer commits. Mark Shuttleworth blogged about this some time ago.

[davemc]

Displacing the leader in the industry will be difficult.

[t8]

Weblications are better than any program written for an OS. They work on all platforms because they are delivered to a browser and processed on the server.

[Imalittleteapot]

Yes, but they work crappily with crappily slow UI response. I really hate to say that though. They will continue to get better with AJAX, new browser extensions, new plugins, and new ways of doing things. Still, right now most web apps work crappily. Sorry I had to invent a new word because most weblications are somewhere in between crap and awesome right now.

[TransDutch]

Weblications for genealogy have the issue that many genealogists want to keep their data private - on their own computer - rather than on some website's server.

[prokoudine]

Much of the world's genealogy is done by the older generation, a generation that isn't likely to have Linux running on their home desktop.

I'm terribly sorry, but this is a quite insightless point of view.

http://blog.gramps-project.org/?p=39