Re: Project idea: IDE

[Samuel Ziegler <ziegler bayarea net>]

> In this madness, there may well be a method.  Microsoft got to the place
> it did by ripping off other people's great ideas and selling it as "top
> quality stuff" (PLEASE nobody comment on the falseness of this statement)
> and integrating everything (at the price of some flexibility)
> 
> There's nothing saying we can't do the same.  I, for one, often use Visual
> Basic and appreciate very much some of its features that allow rapid
> application developement.  Rather than bashing Microsoft and saying
> how bad it is, we need to see what is good, what is done well (and don't
> say nothing) and then proceed to shamelessly rip off the good ideas while
> avoiding the bad ones.  We are in no position to wage an us-versus-them
> war--we need to visibly show that "we do this better."
> 

I was ranting.  Blowing off some steam.  Rants by definition contain 
madness.  It's all good.  All I want to do is make a cool IDE for Linux
using Gnome.  BTW, I agree with everything you say here.  I'm not sure what
I said to annoy you.

-- 
Sam Ziegler / ziegler@mediaguaranty.com / sam@ziegler.org
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