On Mar 31, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Corn Walker wrote:

> On Mar 31, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
> 
>> That's on crummy analogy, Richard. 
> 
> I think his analogy was meant more along the lines of, developer time is 
> finite, and so the amount of time they likely were willing to commit to this 
> feature (given release dates an
> d such) was not sufficient to implement the feature as fully as one would 
> like. The nine pregnant women thing is a reference to The Mythical Man Month 
> essay. You should look it up.

I'm familiar with the 'essay'. That's why I called Richard out on it.

And I know about time to develop. I'm something of a developer myself. But I 
work alone as opposed to having a 'stable' like FMI.


> In the meantime, check out those plug-ins and buy one already. You would have 
> been done sending out your email by now. : )


Yeah... Buy one and then, if FMI sees it as profitable, they generate it. Or 
maybe they'll be bribed to hold off, as I suspect they are for various other 
features offered by some third parties I can think of that want $1000 for a 
developer's license to use their plug-in.

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