Hi Tony,
Tony Pursell schreef:
Hi everyone
I'm a refugee from the discuss list, hoping to get a more balanced view
of EEs on this list.
My background is in commercial software development where it would
have been a serious disciplinary offence to put unauthorised code into
programs. We were contracted to do what we were asked to do. No
more, no less. If we had put an extra visible feature into a program it
would have been bad enough. If a hidden feature had come to light, all
hell would have broken loose. Why? Its because with an untested
feature we would have not been able to guarantee the integrity of our
program. The customer would have lost all faith in the company's
ability to control the development of the system. And being in the
market for government system, word would have travelled fast to our
future sales prospects that we were untrustworth an ill-disciplined.
So I have to say, remove the EEs. They will do us no credit if we want
to get OOo into the all important corporate and government markets
and reach that magical 'tipping point'.
If you want to have pictures of developers, have a hyperlink from the
About box to the OOo website. I.e. keep it an up front feature, not
hidden. And also think about the image. I know that developers work
best when casually dressed and like a pint or two of beer to unwind after
a hard session of code cutting. But I never knew a programmer who
didn't dress up a bit for the customers to create a good impression.
And finally, if you want to provide 'extras', put them in the Custom
install only, disabled by default.
Thank you fir your contribution!
Steven P.
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