From: Adam Flinton 

Tony Ingenoso wrote:
> Indeed.  The bazzar produces things not because of its procedures, but in
> spite of them.
>
> Far too many development cycles wasted on worthless "vanity junk", not
> enough spent on critical components and tools.
>
> ex. Try using GDB.  Its usability isn't much better than a 1981 vintage
> DEBUG.  Its truly a frustrating experience that make one yearn for the
> primitive 1987 vintage CodeView 1.0.  Those guys really need to take a UI
> design lesson from Borland, Logitec, or even MS.  TD is great, and
> MultiScope wasn't bad either.  GDB is technically capable of doing what you
> need, but the presentation of information is flat out stoneage.
>

Yup. No need to convince me of this. However the cathedral produces it's
own type of junk etc. people are people.

Adam

> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:429e2dd8$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> http://news.com.com/IT+giants+accused+of+exploiting+open+source/2100-7344_3-5
726714.html
>
>>"Villasante argued...progress has been inhibited by...and by
>>the fragmentation of the open-source community.
>
>

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