Hi all, <rambling>
Imagine thousands of hits __every__ day on the geda-user mailing list, emails about user problems or automagiccally generated bug reports by the underlying windoze OS ? All those bug reports to be looked into and processed into a presentation for the senior management as to report where to put the effort of developers into ? Taking shifts in the front-office helpdesk, assisting clueless users ? Not getting your back-office development work done ? Imagine trying to get additional budget, for October 1st this year, to hire another dozen developers to get bugs squashed and newly filed feature requests implemented, for the upcoming gEDA X-mas special release. Imagine senior management demanding a paper, this very week, on where the gEDA market strategy should be heading in say a year, or 3 years, from now ? Imagine features wanted by users, actually being filed by users and actually being solved by developers ? Imagine hardware vendors trying to plug their own footprints and symbols of their devices in a licensed gEDA distro/promo CD/DVD ? Imagine the entire gEDA suite incorporated in Microsoft Vista Service Release 2. <beep> <beep> <beep> <smacks the alarm clock> <pant> <pant> <takes a deep breath> Oh, it's 06.00 hours. Time to get up and go to work. What a nightmare I had last night. </rambling> Just my EUR 0.02 Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. BTW: where would the gEDA suite be in say 3 years from now ? _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user