Hey, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Etienne Robillard<robillard.etie...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't care about '97, pretty much.
Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. :) > I think that if this Jim guy has lots of experience then at least he > could not pretend that other people works are made by/for geniuses, > which is probably untrue anyway. There's other ways to advertise a open > source project I think you misread him. He said it the goal is for it to be simple, he didn't say other people's works are complicated. Besides; I think Jim would be the first to admit that some of his other works are actually a bit harder to understand for other people. Zope 2 and Zope 3, which Jim both designed, are considered by many to be more than a little bit intimidating. > One method > is to discriminate other projects, thus making it's own work appears > better in some ways or another. Of courses this has nothing to do in > being a genius.. You don't have to be a genius to copy-and-paste things. You're reading things that Jim didn't write anywhere as far as I know. He doesn't compare Bobo with anything else. He just states what the goal is. What he does say is that he built Bobo on other people's work, giving it credit. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
