Re: Call for constructive user criticism.

[br0ke math smsu edu]

On 01-Aug-99 Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
>> and why would you want to cut yourself off from end user opinion?  that's
>> a very Microsoftian philosophy - in my opinion.
> 
> I am not cutting anyone here.  But being a programmer I sort of know
> what I want in my applications.  I just do not know what a user who
> does not care about computers and wants to use a "free-software based
> computer appliance" expects.
> 

I know the feeling. There's a real difference between what I
want/need/expect/demand from programs and what my friends expect. I got friends
who're avid unix fans to want it a certain way, friends who are game fiends and
tweak gurus who want it a different way, friends who just use them once in a
while who don't know anything about *nix, programming, tweaking, or anything
besides clicking the microsloth logo who want it yet another way... etc etc etc
:) And to complicate issues, the open software I'm writing (I got closed secret
projects) is a mud client, and I don't play muds. I'm writing software I won't
use to access a service I don't really care about and trying to do a decent job
of it going "if I were a mudder, I'd think it's handy to have ****". pretty
strusfrating:) My method is to scratch together quick cgi's and run a poll on
my programs page, not only do I get to see what people thing, I get to see
which os they're running so I know what kinda cross-compatability I should
concern myself with. 

> 
> Miguel.
> 
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