> This is not a democracy, but an "open dictatorship"
Here, here. Most successful efforts are. No problem there --- so is Linux, Perl,
etc. etc. If
anybody's mistaken my argument for a call to democracy, I apologize for misleading
you; indeed, my
argument is the opposite of that. Despite the apparent general warm fuzzy here on the
list for /View, I
guess I'm advocating that Rebol Inc. either reconsider the prioritization of /View
over /Command or (at
least) explain the motivation for juggling priorities; it would seem that market /
business context
would motivate against this new priority. Again, if this was clear in Carl's e-mail
which I apparently
missed while I was off the list for a while, I apologize. Anyway, Carl or whoever at
Rebol ought to
read all our hot air here on this list, take a hard look at the market, then go with
his gut. So I
agree, with the following caveat:
> - work on /View or whatever makes more business sense
> ( or gives the most pleasure... )
Now you lost me. It *has* to be whatever makes more business sense. This is a
crusade, but its goal
ought to be world domination, not just jihad for jihad's sake, right? It's like
climbing a mountain:
you don't pick the steepest route to the top, you plan the path that will get you
there safest and with
the least wasted energy. We --- or Rebol, IMHO --- ought to pick the things that get
the most
developers writing the most lines of code that will have the most real-world utility
and generate the
most use. In today's environment, that would clearly seem to be Web apps, not canned
applications.
jb
