On 2007-07-05, Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 5, 9:21 am, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Nicola Musatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, Gregor Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [...] >> > > That's a property of open source projects. >> > > Features nobody really needs are not implemented. >> >> > No, no, you got it all wrong. It's in *commercial* projects that >> > features nobody really needs are not implemented. >> >> No, no, squared. In a commercial project, the only features that get >> implemented are the ones somebody is willing to pay for. Whether there is >> any correlation between need and willingness to pay is an open question. > > Then tell us, pray, who was willing to pay for the epitome of useless > features in MS Word, that Useless Features' Useless Feature, the > ability to format text with the animated effect "Marching Red Ants"? > I'm sure I paid for it, but it wasn't willingly...
You should count your blessings. At least it doesn't play pinball any more. At least, I hope not. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
