I don't think Fabrizio made that argument at all, and he didn't say anything about the relative importance of different kinds of Java developer.
IMHO all Java developers are important to the Java community. Even if Mac users represent only 10% (again, assuming the numbers from Eclipse are representative), that's not a 10% we can afford to lose. Neil On Oct 29, 10:56 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > What kind of silly argument is this? All programmers are not made > equal. What are you trying to say exactly? That Mac OS X java > developers aren't all that important because it's only 10%, while at > the same time saying that those developers that go to conferences use > Mac OS X rather a lot. That doesn't make any sense: Those developers > that go to conferences are clearly far more important than those that > don't. > > On Oct 29, 9:16 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > A couple of days ago we were discussing on numbers. The Eclipse > > community has some of them: > > >http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/trends-from-the-eclipse-c... > > > Mac OS X is at 8%. So, people guessing under 10% were right, assuming > > that the Eclipse community is a good sample. Another proof that what you > > see at conferences is a distortion of reality. > > > -- > > f.g. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
