Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > IOWs, eyecandy with no functionality... Sounds like the same mindset > that creates entire web sites using Flash animations such that one /can > not/ access them using a simple fast-loading text modes. >
Not exactly. Look...when you're using freeware to compete with OTS applications then you have to keep up with appearances. One of the apps I wrote was used by our Sales team to show to customers. These same customers are used to seeing flashy apps being shown to them all the time, and we are basically competing against other companies using these programs. Anyone who has written apps like this understand what a difference that first appearances make. You can take the exact same program, give it a flashier wrapper, and customers will automatically think it offers that much more. Customers usually only test drive these things long enough to get a feel for it, not long enough to understand what all it will do. Therefore you can get a competitive edge using something that sets it apart appearance-wise. It has nothing to do with being hollow inside. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
