Well, this has become somewhat academic as it's ascended to a sort of meta-level, but ...
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I hope that's a rhetorical "you."  Nobody in thread has espoused anything even remotely similar to that view. |
First, that wasn't directed at you individually, or to any of the developers who have actually been responsive to needs/desires expressed by users here. And I have to disagree that nobody here has espoused anything even remotely similar to that view. But that aside ...
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But regarding who's the one that's important in software product development ... well that gets pretty fuzzy when there's no actual "product" for sale, and all development is done by a couple of folks who just like to do a little programming in their spare time and don't accept donations of any kind, now doesn't it?
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Well, yes and no. If you don't focus on the customer and user group (whether they're paying for a product or not), then in fact what you have is just a bunch of self-indulgent developers participating in some sort of hobby and pretending to be doing something meaningful and worthwhile. I don't think that's at all fuzzy. I also don't have the sense that this hobby approach is Sigil's "project culture", but I suppose I could be wrong.
There's a lot more that could be said about this (and has been), but ...
