Yo-Yo Ma, You must be reading a different thread to me... Or rather I don't see it in quite as negative terms as you do and I'm a bit baffled as to how you've interpreted it quite so strongly!
Richard's OP was indeed not saying that we should go out and advertise that it's a great CMS but he did mention some CMS and his follow-up post did indicate that the approach he was thinking about was oriented more towards those with a requirements for CMS-type-things where applications to do a lot of it could already be reused. In the responses from others in the thread I see enthusiasm for raising the profile of Django (and making it easier for people to make an informed decision about whether it's a good fit for their requirements) but also musings on the "market" for Django and about the re-usable applications (in particular those to assist in CMS-type-things) being a related, but separate, strand to Django core. "They don't get jobs usually which is why they work for free." did make me laugh, so nice one ;) Regards, Matt On Jun 18, 1:16 am, Yo-Yo Ma <baxterstock...@gmail.com> wrote: > This thread shows a very prevalent side of most developers that makes > me ashamed to tell people that I'm a developer. > > The OP is not saying that we should go out and advertise that Django > is a great CMS. In fact he spends half of his post making trying to > preemptively shut all the know-it-all folks up before they even start > with, "The problem with your post is... [insert ignoramus disguised as > b-rated philosophy]". > > The fact of the matter is that the best software sometimes comes from > those who have no business sense (or any sense for that matter). > Django's community is very closed minded. For those of you who would > like to promote Django as awesome for building ['CMS', 'SOCIAL > APPLICATION', 'INSERT YOUR FAVORITE WHEEL TO REINVENT'], feel free to > do so. You're helping yourself, not the closed-minded folks. They > don't get jobs usually which is why they work for free. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
