My own thoughts around this persistent stupid idea (and I’m talking about the world, not a particular community: we suffer of the same time to time) is: no genius can match a community.
Esteban > On 10 Nov 2014, at 12:18, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > > >> On 10 Nov 2014, at 11:59, p...@highoctane.be wrote: >> >> I'd say that we have all have suffered enough from a sucky text editor. >> >> So, let's jump over the chasm with no regrets. >> >> We aren't doing Squeak, right? >> > > I Squeak, there was always some simple next step. But the community always > said: > “No, Genius person X is working on Y which will be oh-so-much-better”. > > And therefore, the next step was not done. Of course, Genius Person never > finshed > Y, because, after nearly doing it, he realised: Wow, one can do it even > better! > > And thus nothing was ever done. > > Marcus
