Maybe I'm just stubborn. (Naw, couldn't be!) :-) But, dammit Lynn, I believe I'm not being too immodest when I say that I'm the inventor of the term "inventive user" and that that gives me *some* standing in defining it.
Chipp and I talked about this a bit on the phone earlier. My view is that if you are a trained programmer (even if self-taught, you've studied *programming*) and/or your *primary* job function is programming, then you are a professional programmer. Anyone who hasn't been trained as a programmer OR who programs only as a relatively small part of their job or strictly as a hobby is what I call an Inventive User. Chipp, by that standard, is a self-described Inventive User. So am I. So, I think, is Jerry Daniels. I suspect Richard Gaskin falls into that category as do all of the educational folks here and.... You get the idea. I think the "sweet spot" for Rev *is* the Inventive User. in fact, I think very few professional programmers will adopt Rev for a host of reasons I've gone into before. So while the Inventive User market may be a tad elusive and hard to define precisely, I don't think that should relegate them to a "D) None of the Above" category on your list. (BTW, you've never given us A through C!) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
