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Re: OT: open source attitude on advice



On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:51:56AM -0800, Rob Reid wrote:
Commercial programmers (in most cases) try to produce whatever
consumers want.

Being jaded, I would rephrase that to:
Commercial programmers (in most cases) try to produce whatever they
THINK consumers want.

I don't know anyone who wanted or asked for Clippy ;)

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