On Feb 05, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Joseph Nastasi wrote:
On Feb 5, 2007, at 1:34 PM, JC wrote:
The emails can be "accumulated" during the day and read later in the
evening. In addition, many workplaces (like mine) have a duty-
free lunch
period. So eating at ones desk is personal time (happily coding
away).
Finally, at the end of the day instead of leaving immediately to
get tied
up in the traffic one can linger about and do some coding (off the
clock).
Great, but why would you expect that RS needs to take that into
consideration? It's a shame that it's no longer an advantage to you
but, RS will hardly fold over this. Whereas they might fold if the
product becomes less stable...
The health of the product is, or should be, REAL's primary concern.
It's a developer tool, not a word processor.
That certainly puts it in a different category than "just another
piece of software".
I personally think that also means that if there's a bug that a user
cannot fix/work around that the company should fix it ASAP.
But that's just my opinion.
However, the company and the product are definitely influenced
greatly by the community of users that surrounds it.
VB was successful not because it was an awesome tool but because it
was good enough and had lots of third party support and a very active
community of users.
This move to shut down the mailing lists may just hurt what community
exists.
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