Marc Sherman;201109 Wrote: > You're not the only professional software engineer here. I take it that > all of your experience in the enterprise arena, where individual > customers pay upwards of 6 figures for their licenses, and may not > upgrade their mission-critical systems to the latest and greatest for > years after it's released? Your broad statements simply do not apply > to > the consumer software space, much less to open source. > > - Marc
hey marc, i don't mean to impune anyone's abilities. i'm certain many folks here are techo-geeks in one way or another, or we wouldn't have undertaken these types of projects in the first place. my point is that a good company is responsive to customers' needs, whether they are large needs or small needs. if a customer requests something from a vendor, or has been given bad advise by a vendor, the best vendors will help the customer out, re-work old hardware or old software, and keep the customer happy. you do not need a million dollar licensing arrangement to do good business. if i had access to slimdevices' code, i'd fix the problem in my old 6.2.1 version myself! but, i do not have such access, and must ask slimdevices to make the change for me. i'm sure the actual problem (in pseudocode) is to change a line that looks like this: if ($tag == "ARTIST") then &process_tags(); to a line like this: if ($tag == "ARTIST" || "GENRE") then &process_tags(); pretty much, that's all i need. :-) best, -sherm -- shermoid "you are only young once, but you can be immature forever" "life is uncertain; eat dessert first" - anonymous please visit my mcintosh website: http://alumni.cse.ucsc.edu/~sherman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shermoid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=379 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27746 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
