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Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:25:06 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: button challenged

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Lynn H. Maxson wrote:
>
> You may think it more convenient to have this
> "query" feature in every program to retrieve it
> from the data repository/directory, but that
> implies that you have no intention from
> relieving yourself from third-party dependence,

Last time I checked, third-party developers were responsible for a lot
of the software I use every day. If I intended to relieve myself of
dependence upon them, I'd be back to Bic pens and yellow tablets.

> an open source choice you choose not to invoke.

I can't choose open source if the software isn't there yet. And I won't
choose an open source app over a proprietary app if the latter gets my
job done and the former doesn't.

> if you participated in open source the software
> tool would provide the information independently

I should be an open source developer? No time, Lynn.

> you want to solve a problem which shouldn't
> exist but does. Instead of eliminating it,
> you want to complicate it.

Sometimes complicated is bad, sometimes it is good. Flying on an
airplane entails a heck of a lot more complicated stuff than riding a
horse to the same destination, but I haven't seen a lot of bow-legged
businessmen down at the corral lately.

> So if I seem partial to a system which
> applies to all software, reducing whatever
> I have to do to any, please forgive me.

I agree with you, Lynn, it would be good. If a thousand different space
aliens were to view Earth they would each see a different planet --
clouds or clear, dark or sunlit, ocean or land, a different view for
every little green man. I somewhat like Sun's approach with Java, where
they keep adding functionality that will hopefully entice programmers to
make their software more useful. This is, in my own little-green-man
view, similar to your quest for "a system which applies to all
software". Your own little-green-man view may vary. :)

- Peter

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