On Monday, October 25, 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> Yes, of course, but I think that those with just a few questions,
>> probably don't hang around long. Who knows? My point was only that
>> postings to a user list are perhaps not the best guide of the wishes of
>> the entire userbase, much less the potential userbase.
> This is where I take offense.
What exactly is there in what I said at which you should take offense?
> Why is it that every program *MUST* do everything else that every
> other program does? Why? It completely ignores these two *FACTS*.
> 1: Not everyone *wants* every program to do everything. *THEY* represent a
> market that you will *KILL* in favor of pursuing an unknown mythical market,
> unvoiced, which is already served by several other applications.
I thought I made it clear that I understood this fact and that it was up
to RIT Labs to decide which markets are their targets. However, the
market for integrated software is hardly "unknown", "mythical" or
"unvoiced" - it may simply be not heard from much on TBUDL.
> 2: By insisting that the authors spend time on another application they reduce
> the time they spend on this one, reducing its effectiveness to those people
> who like it in its current state.
I would think this would depend on whether added functionality would
increase sales sufficiently to balance costs of development. If it
didn't and didn't add to profits, there wouldn't be any point in
devoting any resources to it.
> Please, if you want an all in one answer, go find one and *STOP* trying to
> make every software package homogenous!
First of all, _I_ am not trying to do anything or advocating anything. I
was simply saying that there is another way of looking at the issue. Not
being privy to RIT Labs financials or to market analyses, I have no idea
what make sense for them.
--
Paula Ford
The Bat! 1.35 (reg)
Windows 95 4.0 Build 950
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