6) You opened (at least) my eyes that technical elegance is not
always the best and that in OS there are more important things.
And I think many of us will be more careful with second, third and fourth, ..., implementations which all do the same ...
I must confess, that I thought exactly the same way.
I never was feeling so much "at home" at a developer community like in this one, even if I'm more a listener than a speaker here.
Stefano does really a great job at community management, and it takes time for new people to realize that.
Often I thought that he's a bit arrogant (forgive me, Stefano ;-), but now I realized, that sometimes he's provocating something (which sometimes might be his real opinion) just to keep the community healthy.
Now I realized that it's all about the community that counts. Excellent technical design might come by itself.
I might go even a step further:
If there's a growing community with people who respect every individual then their product must strive to technical excellance with respect to their real needs.
Nature and evolution has proven that many times.
Even now we are often surprised that the behaviours and structures of all creatures on this earth serve a certain purpose which has been developed over the time.
It was not carefully planed as a perfect world from the beginning on because then all creatures would have been unchanged since then.
Cheers, Reinhard
Bye, Andreas Hochsteger http://highstick.blogspot.com/
PS:
I don't know, if I can follow this interesting discussion further, since I'm going to marry my girlfriend on saturday (perhaps you already noticed).
I'll be back on 29th of June.
