On Thu, 2 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 14:24:58 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply-To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Jakarta General List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: You guys are so funny.
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> Berin Loritsch says:
> > There are other dirty underhanded things that M$ did to get where it
> > is today. Don't try to compare us to M$. We're not M$.
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>
> Whenever someone tells me how much MSFT has done for technology, I
> can't help but think of how far we might have gotten if MSFT hadn't
> been so in the way all these years!
For all the nasty things Microsoft has done over the years, they have also
been pretty good at one particular thing -- asking their customers (and
potential customers) what they want, and listening to the answer.
It seems to me that authors of a build environment that they want
"everyone" to use would think about going and asking the potential users
(i.e. committers on various other projects) what their requirements are,
before any attempt (by those authors, or by anyone else as was the case
that started this particular flamefest) to shove it down everyone's
throats.
This is a characteristic of pretty much every company that gains long
term and/or mainstream acceptance for their products. Too bad some open
source developers haven't learned that the same principles can apply here.
> Jeff Sexton
Craig McClanahan
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