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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: Linux as terminal emulator.
Date: 1 Mar 2001 23:50:32 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <G9JKop.6C6@news.boeing.com>,
Jeff Susanj <jeffrey.l.susanj@boeing.com> wrote:
: Paid developers have little incentive to care about users since they only do
: what the marketing types say. I would be much more likely to care about
: users if I was the one talking to the users and deciding what should be
: included in the next release. Being a no-name software gerbil in a maze of
: cubicles does not engender pride in the product. The best software is
: produced by people who are passionate about their product, not necessarily
: those who are paid big bucks.
:
All true. However, there's a happy medium -- developers in small projects
like ours, who are not bossed by marketing managers, but instead are in direct
contact with their user community, and driven by their reports, suggestions,
ctiticism, requests, and concerns, to the best of our ability to keep up.
It's not the only model, but it's a good model for us.
By the way, we don't sit in a maze of cubicles either. Take a look:
http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/timeline.html
- Frank