On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
> I am not asking
> them to continue the development of a tool on a completely different
> platform and commit resource
> expenses for a long period of time. I am talking about a short
> effort with limited resources and a
> huge long term impact to the community. Different all together in my
> opinion.
They are not at all different. In the VFP/Mac case, I had a list of
over two dozen documented bugs that were known during the beta (yes, I
had the cookies to show for them) that remained in the released
product. All I had asked was for the top 6 (the ones that prevented it
from being usable) to be fixed. No promise for future development was
requested; just a few bugs to be fixed. I think the fact that they
knowingly released a buggy product showed that marketing decisions
were far more important than technical considerations.
-- Ed Leafe
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