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Originally Posted by ghmerrill
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
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Yes. That's exactly what I'm doing. Sigil is a self-indulgent hobby of mine. But I'm not a "developer." Hell, I'm barely a
programmer. I'm a sysadmin. Yes... THAT sysadmin.
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Originally Posted by ghmerrill
and pretending to be doing something meaningful and worthwhile.
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But I'm not doing this. It's worthwhile to me, but I don't care much if it's seems worthwhile to others. I'll listen to suggestions from other users, but I feel no obligation to incorporate anything that doesn't make sense to me personally first.
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Originally Posted by ghmerrill
I also don't have the sense that this hobby approach is Sigil's "project culture"
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Might want to get your sniffer checked. Because I'm all hobby; all the time.
I won't speak for Kevin, but for myself, my loyalty is to the code, and to Sigil itself. Not its users. And while it's cool if others find what I do useful, I don't really care in the least who uses Sigil, how
many use Sigil, or how many don't. And that's because regardless of you (and others) insisting otherwise,
I HAVE NO CUSTOMERS. Paying or otherwise. Period. I am not hacking on Sigil for anyone other than
me. It's usefulness to others is primarily a by-product of my utterly self-indulgent hobby.
My decision to not accept donations for my contributions to Sigil was made precisely because I did not want to promote or instill a traditional business/customer paradigm. I'm not hawking wares.