IT decision-makers demand in an open letter more focus on the areas important to them:
In an open letter to "the" Open Source Community, IT decision-makers from various fields have urged to orient themselves more towards the actual needs of users from the corporate sector.
I always find it fascinating with what audacity some people make demands on voluntary work, only to then use it for their own purposes. Some demand the abolition of the GPL because the conditions don't suit them, the next demand focus on the desktop because they want an alternative to Microsoft, others demand more focus on high-performance servers because SUN machines with Solaris or IBM servers with AIX are too expensive for them.
Strangely enough, I only ever hear demands in open letters - but it would be much more sensible to simply support the corresponding project financially and with manpower. But that would be one's own effort, which one wants to avoid precisely. Demands for better support and better documentation also fit in here - both things that companies could easily set up themselves. But one is too good for that.
Sorry, but to me, such open letters to Open Source developers always sound like whiny little children who absolutely want an ice cream.
Sorry, folks, but that's not how it works. A large part of the Open Source Community still consists of hackers and enthusiastic amateurs and tinkerers. This often produces great crap and occasionally brilliant solutions. And it produces only what people feel like doing - if writing documentation is boring and annoying for someone, they will not spend their free time on it.
You have an itch? Scratch it. Yourself.