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From: Francis R Bridge {BRIDGE1} <bridge@cig.mot.com>
Subject: Re: Linux as terminal emulator.
Date: 05 Mar 2001 16:42:06 -0600
Organization: Motorola CIG
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
> 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
Quite interesting! You mention the first Kermit article appeared in BYTE
magazine in June and July of 1984. Are reprints of that article available?
-Frank (Bridge)