On 9/16/10 2:57 PM, Robin Schwab wrote:
That is what I found a bit sad in this discussion: It's based on "fear and loathing" instead of user-centered delivery of the best service.
I'm not sure I understand this complaint. Are you suggesting that we should just accept the pain (as developers) in order to provide the best experience later?
By fear and loathing I don't think we meant something that would be confined to just developers and administrators. Trust me, our pain would be your pain too.
In this case we told the people "sorry, that's impossible" because any proprietary tool is /tabu/.
I think you are trying to imply we are limited thinkers here. Perhaps, but we are not shutting you down just for violating a cultural norm against the sacred god Oh-Ess-Ess.
Discussions about using closed source tools are not taboo. Not at all, I think we should continue to review decisions about tools. I myself have raised questions about (for instance) our decision to never use Flash, even if we use a 100% free toolchain.