Steve Meier wrote: > Do either of you think that one size shoe should fit all peoples feet? >
No, but it seems this thread shows two different sizes. The rest would mostly be in between :-) > The market place of jobs will have opportunities for specialists and for > generalists and for ranges in between. > > The generalist will be at a disadvantage when faced with a task that > pushes state of the art for a specific field. The specialist tends to be > pressed when outside their area. > > How does this relate to geda? Feed back from specialists isn't bad but > they need to understand that their suggestions will be treated as > suggestions not as mandates. The coders will work on what interests > them, or what they get payed to work on, or maybe if they get some > thrill from being the one to provide some feature (or in DJ's case I > think he just can't help but be creative). > This depends on the gEDA goals. Ales wants to flesh those out some more, he wrote. If, for example, the goal would be to some day provide a very viable alternative to commercial stuff that engineers use today then it might head into a similar direction as OpenOffice. It isn't quite there yet but it is close to what manistream business uses. However, maybe that's not the goal, I don't know (yet). [...] -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
