On 2005.02.07, Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Disclaimer: I work with Greg on the project described above.)

Cool!  Hello!  Nice to meet you.  :-)

> In my experience, this behavior is the norm for corporate use of open
> source, regardless of the particular open source project under
> discussion.  I would guess that less than 25% of teams using open
> source tools make any modification to any of the tools they use to get
> their jobs done.  (My gut feeling is that the number is less than 5%,
> but that's just a SWAG.)

That's been my experience as well.  I'm trying to understand and
rationalize the existance of a small but vocal minority that keeps
asking for features that appear, at the surface, to have very limited
utility to those outside of the small group that keeps asking for it.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

-- Dossy

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    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)


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