[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 89, Issue 25

[Roger Taylor]

At 12:21 PM 9/17/2010, you wrote:


>Roger has been very supportive of the CoCo Community and I applaud 
>his efforts.
>
>My little gripe was really general, and I DID point out that I 
>understood his decision.
>But you're right about one thing -- anyone who can't take criticism 
>you don't need to be
>in the public market for anything, just sit in a corner and suck 
>your thumb by yourself
>(I'm not meaning that to slam you personally -- I'm using "your" in 
>a general sense).
>I've been in the computer market before, and you get both 
>constructive and useless
>criticism. Mine was really to plant the idea that there are open 
>source or at least
>cross platform tools that would open the market slightly. Yes, I 
>know it would be "slightly"
>-- 85% of the general computer market is probably correct, though I 
>would bet there is
>a larger percentage of developers who use Linux that are working on 
>general purpose tools
>and programs because it's a less restrictive environment. Of course 
>if your goal is
>Windows software only... But I digress!
>
>The point is criticism can be taken constructively even when it's 
>just a gripe giving
>no real reason, such as "doesn't work for my particular purpose" 
>(duh! get something
>that does!!).
>
>Since a few other responses are mentioning specific cross platform 
>tools and such, maybe
>Roger will consider looking at some of those if/when he finds the 
>time. My only goal was
>to plant the idea, maybe he'll consider it for future versions, 
>maybe going over to a
>cross platform environment will be too much work for this particular project.


I also code under Linux and will definitely try to port my stuff to 
other systems the first chance I get.




-- 
~ Roger Taylor