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Re: Friday, February 14, 2003
Doc, Andre's quote is intriguing -- I have to think about it. In the meantime I think he's right -- middle strategies have the most juice. XML-RPC is such a beast. It doesn't care if you're open source or Attilla the Hun. Everyone is welcome. Just don't try to fence me in. In recent discussions about open source at Berkman, where there are some die-hard open source advocates (I'm making their lives miserable, trust me) it's become more clear that what people want is control of their own destiny, software-wise. In the confusion that comes with this (absolutely fair and justified) epiphany, they assume that all attributes of the demon must go on the scrap heap. No, not true. Microsoft does some things quite well, esp things they learned from others like Lotus, Apple, even IBM. They may be unprinicipled about lock-in, but that doesn't mean everything they do is intolerable. Listening to users and making the software work the way they want to is somethingj that MS and the commercial world do much better than open source, for good reason -- no one would put up with users unless you paid them to because they usually act like customers and guess what makes a customer a customer?? Anyway, enough rambling for now.
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