On Jul 5, 4:21 pm, 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.
Ah, but you snipped the most important part of my post: > Profit is fundamental in convincing you that you really > need the features. I mean, marketing is all about creating the willingness by stimulating the perception of the need. Cheers, Nicola Musatti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
