> 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. >
+1 - thats what I've been asking for this entire flamefest. Of course I'm one of those silly people that think collaboration is good... > 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. > +1 > > Jeff Sexton > > Craig McClanahan > -Andy > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
