On Saturday 04 July 2009 10:58:22 am Stan Goodman wrote:
I am still not accustomed to the rigidity with which some of the essential programs are designed, with little or no thought to what other people (i.e. people other than the designer) need. One can easily imagine what happens in an enterprise enterprise where there is an occasional need to refer to backed-up correspondence.
You are actually not yet in the open source development model philosophy, but you are not alone. Basic program is created to solve someones problem, then when that works fine it is out for other that might find it useful. Features are added on the go, if author, or somebody else know/want/has-time to do that.
Ah, for the flexibility of OS/2.
I am still not accustomed to the rigidity
It is relative what is considered flexible. OS/2 that was due to price tag primarily enterprise system, had applications with features that not many Linux users will ask for, and when developers don't stumble over many requests for them, they don't think about creating them, which is the reason for previous and this email - to raise awareness that something is missing :-) -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org