Good point!! Maybe we should just give it a little while and wait for Steve to proclaim it's a great idea and soon the whole world of radio will be on-board!:)
"These projects need to un-monetize the incentives."
I completely agree!! Your firefox example is a good one. But for projects that don't have a built-in incentive, maybe something as simple as advertising space for a day on the firefox (or whoever's) website, or a firefox email address, etc.
sorry - I mistakenly drifted into the IT section of slashdot...
You IT guys are all so threatened by real developers! (since you're all just developer want-a-bee's) And a female developer - that's the scariest of all!
I won't make this mistake again... I wouldn't want to subject you to crying in the fetal position.
Not to be completly cynical - but I'm not surprised they missed the bug... They (or their software vendor) probably doesn't have the QA staff and/or expertise to do regression testing.
But then again, who does? Why is it that very few software companies seem to consider QA important?
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Good point!! Maybe we should just give it a little while and wait for Steve to proclaim it's a great idea and soon the whole world of radio will be on-board! :)
"Yeah, Steve's kinda right on this - podcasting is neat & all, but the breathy overstatement of how it will change our lives is a wee bit overdone."
Maybe Steve's just learned his lesson, since stating that the Segway would "transform human mobiliy" and we all know how that's turned out...
"These projects need to un-monetize the incentives."
I completely agree!! Your firefox example is a good one. But for projects that don't have a built-in incentive, maybe something as simple as advertising space for a day on the firefox (or whoever's) website, or a firefox email address, etc.
sorry - I mistakenly drifted into the IT section of slashdot... You IT guys are all so threatened by real developers! (since you're all just developer want-a-bee's) And a female developer - that's the scariest of all! I won't make this mistake again... I wouldn't want to subject you to crying in the fetal position.
Not to be completly cynical - but I'm not surprised they missed the bug... They (or their software vendor) probably doesn't have the QA staff and/or expertise to do regression testing. But then again, who does? Why is it that very few software companies seem to consider QA important?