Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:51:32 +0100, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>
>> Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:49:25 +0100, Mart van de Wege wrote:
>>>
>>>>> However, you're pretty much stuck with what Open Source developers
>>>>> think you should want, rather than what you actually want.
>>>>
>>>> And this is different from any other kind of development methodology
>>>> how?
>>>
>>> Commercial software is driven by sales. You give customers what they
>>> want,
>>> and they buy your product. If you refuse to give them what they want,
>>> they give their money to someone who IS willing to give them what they
>>> want.
>>
>> Strange: *That* isn't at all what is going on with MS software
>
> Actually, it is.
>
> Roy loves to harp about the poor Vista sales figures. Vista is not
> selling as well as was expected, and that's largely because Microsoft did
> not give it's customers what they wanted.
No. It does not sell because it is extremely shitty, and people are not as
dumb as MS needs them to be, and even the MS fanbois had to conclude that
the people responsible for Vista deserve to be shot on the spot
If your premise were even /somewhat/ correct, MS would have checked before
what customers want and built Vista according to those requirements.
Instead they have built the shittiest resource hog ever, with a lot of hated
DRM thrown in for good measure
They thought that they could force it down to their customers like they
could do before. And if not, they could always pull the rug from under XP.
As they had to find to their chagrin, the people did not swallow
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