As an example, one only has to look at the kludge that Microsoft made of Word. It is not as easy to do perform certain function or to access features. New and fresh can be simply, "we needed to justify getting more money from our users."
> On Mar 20, 2017, at 13:27, Craig, Alison <acr...@bkultrasound.com> wrote: > > I’m sorry but this is offensive to me on so many levels – possibly others as > well. And it’s indicative of too many players in the software world these > days. >>> And? History is history! More or less no one from the old FrameMaker days >>> is in the FrameMaker team today. Product Managers, engineers, QA, etc. – >>> the whole team is pretty young and fresh. And with a lot of energy. > History isn’t just history. Remember "those who do not learn history are > doomed to repeat it" which means you make the same mistakes over and over. > Sound familiar when taken in context with some of the comments in this thread? > It’s not an accomplishment to say “More or less no one from the old > FrameMaker days is in the FrameMaker team today”. That’s a sad commentary on > the way Adobe (among others) does business and how it treats its employees. > And “young and fresh…with a lot of energy” in this context is nothing to brag > about. It implies that older, experienced personnel just drag down the team.. > “Tried and true” can be better for *good* reason. I’ve personally seen “young > and fresh” team members push for something that’s long since been rejected by > users as the opposite of what’s actually needed or even worse, completely > useless. But hey, it’s cute and/or trendy! And isn’t that what counts? > Experienced team members with an ingrained history of the program’s > development arc can steer the team away from revisiting *proven* bad ideas > and the more obvious *silly* ones. Of course, that’s only if they have the > stamina and energy to get out bed every morning and make it to work at all, > let alone on time. > Alison Craig > Technical Documentation Specialist > BK Ultrasound | acr...@bkultrasound.com > > From: Framers > [mailto:framers-bounces+acraig=bkultrasound....@lists.frameusers.com] On > Behalf Of Stefan Gentz > Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 4:25 AM > To: Peter Gold > Cc: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. > Subject: Re: [Framers] FM 2017 Feature Request: Restore color and scaling to > menu icons > > Hi Peter, > > my history with FrameMaker might be short and small compared to yours (I have > only about 20 years of FrameMaker history on my shoulders, only something > like +50,000 hours of working with FM, and only several million pages proc _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
