On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:
[snip]
While I appreciate the sentiment and more or less agree this isn't
and never has been a democracy
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Maybe not explicitly, but in a way it is. People vote with their
wallets. If they like what the see, they vote "yea" by buying the
latest release. If they don't like it, they vote "nay" by keeping
their plastic money safely hidden away (sort of). The problem with
this sort of implied "democracy" is that it's unstable - if too many
people vote "nay", it makes it more expensive for those who vote
"yea" because RS will have to recoup the lost sales in higher prices
to stay in business. :(
In this case, maybe we do need to make it a democracy (to a
certain extent.) The voters (buyers) would get a 'voter registration
card' (their license code) which would enable them to vote on
specific features or bug fixes within a specific time frame (set by
RS). The 'voting booth' would be a web page, or a screen in the RB
IDE itself, and would be 'enabled' during the appropriate period of
voting, much like voting for real candidates for office now (i.e., it
occurs during a specific time of the year, and only on certain years).
In this way, those who vote "nay" don't have to do so with their
wallets, just with their IDE (or browser) :)
This rant brought to you courtesy of Kentucky Fried Chips, home of
the world famous, spicy-hot "REALbasic wings" (okay, sorry. Couldn't
resist... :P )
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