On 2010-Jan-31 22:02:19 -0800, Nick Alexander <ncalexan...@gmail.com> wrote: >Not at all. But take away mathematics, and we don't have a >*product*. Take away release management, fixing bugs, documentation, >or maintaining the web site and we have an inferior project, but we >still have a project. Take away support for Solaris or HP-UX, and we >don't serve what appears, to me, to be a small market. (Certainly >small compared to the potential pool of Microsoft Windows users.)
IMHO, that's a particularly unhelpful attitude. Take away the web site and none of your potential users will know about your product or be able to find/download it. Take away documentation and no-one will know how to use it. Take away bug fixes and no-one can trust the results returned by your product. Take away release management and no-one can be sure whether the version they are running has specific bugs fixed or not and what environment the product should run in. Maybe you'd still have a project, but it wouldn't be one that was of much use to anyone: If by some chance you managed to find an executable and worked out how to drive it, it might be able to produce an output very quickly but by the time you'd double-checked the calculation, you might as well have done it by hand to start with. -- Peter Jeremy
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