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- From: goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
- Subject: Re: Rremoving entab/detab from Icon
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.144818.7516@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:48:18 GMT
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- John Nall writes (concerning the idea that the "customer is always
- right"):
-
- >Excuse me? My newsfeed must have malfunctioned - apparently the
- >smiley faces didn't make it.
- >
- >Free software? That suits most of us very well? And the "customer" is
- >going to say "change this" or "change that"? Come on, now, guys..:-)
- >You've got the source - if you don't like something about it, change
- >the sucker!
-
- Just for the record, you can't just go into the Icon source tree and
- change things. Gotta know the language and the implementation. For
- many, especially those who don't spend their lives grubbing around in
- systems programming languages like C, altering things would not be
- practical.
-
- By "customer" I think the poster simply meant "user." The Icon Project
- is distinguished from most academically based research efforts in having
- one eye on the user at all times. At least that's been my experience
- with them.
-
- --
-
- -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
- goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
-