On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 04:25:32PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 09:51:54PM +0100, Richard Foley wrote: > > It's sad, but it's true: > > > > Developers/Engineers like to think their creation is so cool, OBVIOUSLY > > everyone's going to buy one. This is/was Apple's approach. > > > > Sales people don't care about their product quality or usefulness, so long > > as > > everyone buys one. This is/was Microsoft's approach. > > > > 'Nuff said. > > I disagree on that last paragraph. Because, Microsoft is a commercial > organisation. The problem it is trying to optimise is "how to make more > money", which means selling more stuff (or the same stuff for more money) > I'm not sure what the major difference is there with the point I was making, but never mind.
> Whereas Perl is an open source creation. People are doing it to solve > other problems. > Yes indeed. > And, who is doing the marketing for Linux? After all, it's doing rather well > on servers, and portable devices. > It's doing extremely well, thank goodness. And the marketing is ground-swell, which proves individuals can make a difference, if there's enough of them ;-) -- Ciao Richard Foley http://www.rfi.net/books.html
