At 08:11 PM 12/1/96 -0800, James Cook wrote:
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>On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, Mike Nolan wrote:
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>> > I thought I'd report back on some changes we're going to make to
>> > Lyris as a result of the feedback from this list.
>>
>> Since this is a a commercial product and you are using this list as a test
>> market without a beta agreement, where do we send our consulting fee
>> invoices to?
>
>This is no test market. This is an exchange of ideas about software
>design. We are the beneficiaires of any smart changes which occur as a
>result.
I've been struck by the extreme sourness of many of the posts on this topic
(as well as by the extreme stupidity of some of the economic theories
presented). This is an offline newsgroup for professional concerns;
evaluating stuff that isn't on the market yet is a professional concern.
The Lyris people posting have struck me as modest, cooperative, and
genuinely inqusitive about how to do things right. These are rare qualities
among programmers, which is a major reason there has been so little positive
result of the three trillion dollars invested in computers so far.
I think they should have been made welcome -- and where people had
criticisms to make of the software, those criticisms could have been made
with good manners and good cheer, instead of the bitter carping we have seen.
-dlj.
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