On Fri, March 17, 2006 12:11 pm, Paul Speed said: > I agree with what you say but I thought that I'd point out that open > source projects are successful for their code and not their ideas. So a > person may have a fabulous idea but if they aren't going to use the code > themselves then it is likely to be of lower quality than something > similar that someone is going to use. It's not universally true but the > phrase "eating your own dog food" didn't come from nowhere. :) > > "Scratching an itch" implies that not only does one have an idea but > they have a use-case that their idea solves... which means their > solution will probably be more than a sketch of a good idea. And it's > something that they'd want to maintain.
That's a good point Paul, thank you! > -Paul Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
