On 10/3/13 3:15 PM, glen wrote:
But when you have to pay for something, immediate, tight loop,
expectations help identify flaws faster than when you identify
something "free" as worthless.
For software, if one has immediate, tight loop expectations, it is close
to already having it. But normally there are a bunch of unstated or
unknown expectations that where the payer just wants to inherit the best
practice (assuming there is such a thing). I think they often do _not_
know what those practices are, or _really_ what they want. They just
want the `best' thing. So, in the more-money-then-brains or
more-money-than-time, they want some authority (or someone holding IP)
to essentially tell them what they want and be on their team. This is
appealing to people that have resources (esp. unaccountable resources)
because it makes them feel like they know or control something because
they bought something. They may define "free" as worthless because they
are only instrumental via capital. (I recognize it may be useful to
just spend money and see the broad outlines of the state-of-the-art, and
then go back and actually learn about the apparently interesting or
relevant bits.)
Marcus
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