for example, i know if scott were to post here saying that ms would give x% of sales of blend (or whatever) to charity, based on the features provided, i'd be a lot more willing to give ideas and comments then i am now.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:51 PM, silky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Nick Randolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "why should they be the only ones to benefit?" - ummm let me see wrong! > > who actually talks like that? anyway, yes, of course the developers > (us) benefit too, but only to a degree. and arguably not as much as > microsoft. > > why are you trying to fight me anyway, when all i'm suggesting is that > people offering ideas should be rewarded for their time spent thinking > about and proposing ideas; and the experience they have used to come > to those decisions. > > don't pretend that the only reason microsoft has these 'evangelist' > type people is to benefit the community; it's to benefit themselves; > by helping improve their products (good) and make more money for the > company (fine, it's a business after all). so if it makes them money > [the idea] why shouldn't the proposer of the idea get a share? your > argument is because it helps that person too. well fine, if they don't > want the money, then have it given to a charity, but why should ms get > it? if it's an idea they wouldn't have considered otherwise? niceness? > pfft, come on. > > > > > They > > clearly aren't the only ones to benefit. Every feature that a vendor > > implements of course makes their product more saleable but in the end it is > > us, the consumers that really benefit. Sure if they were genuinely abusing > > a market position to push products down our throats (no mention of a > certain > > company that makes shiny white products) then it would be a different > kettle > > of fish. > > > > > > > > If MS could implement even half the features the community suggests we > would > > have products that are infinitely better than they are. > > no not at all; not all features help, a lot just plain suck and would > make the languages/environments worse. > > > > > Oh, and while we are talking about wishlists - how about dropping Blend > > altogether and just pushing those features back into VS where they belong > > ;-) At the moment we have what seems a very contrived separation of > context > > with designers being able to do developer tasks in Blend while developers > > are unable to do their job without Blend! > > -- > > > http://lets.coozi.com.au/ > > There's not a problem I can't fix, because I can do it in the mix. > -- http://lets.coozi.com.au/ There's not a problem I can't fix, because I can do it in the mix. ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
