On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Nick Randolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "why should they be the only ones to benefit?" - ummm let me see wrong!
who actually talks like that? anyway, yes, of course the developers (us) benefit too, but only to a degree. and arguably not as much as microsoft. why are you trying to fight me anyway, when all i'm suggesting is that people offering ideas should be rewarded for their time spent thinking about and proposing ideas; and the experience they have used to come to those decisions. don't pretend that the only reason microsoft has these 'evangelist' type people is to benefit the community; it's to benefit themselves; by helping improve their products (good) and make more money for the company (fine, it's a business after all). so if it makes them money [the idea] why shouldn't the proposer of the idea get a share? your argument is because it helps that person too. well fine, if they don't want the money, then have it given to a charity, but why should ms get it? if it's an idea they wouldn't have considered otherwise? niceness? pfft, come on. > They > clearly aren't the only ones to benefit. Every feature that a vendor > implements of course makes their product more saleable but in the end it is > us, the consumers that really benefit. Sure if they were genuinely abusing > a market position to push products down our throats (no mention of a certain > company that makes shiny white products) then it would be a different kettle > of fish. > > > > If MS could implement even half the features the community suggests we would > have products that are infinitely better than they are. no not at all; not all features help, a lot just plain suck and would make the languages/environments worse. > Oh, and while we are talking about wishlists - how about dropping Blend > altogether and just pushing those features back into VS where they belong > ;-) At the moment we have what seems a very contrived separation of context > with designers being able to do developer tasks in Blend while developers > are unable to do their job without Blend! -- http://lets.coozi.com.au/ There's not a problem I can't fix, because I can do it in the mix. ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
