At 15:47 2016-02-22, Ken Dibble krdibble@stny.rr.com wrote:
Yes, you may know what you really want (but not always) andreally need (not nearly so often the case). You are the guy with the money, and you are the guy who makes the decisions, and none of this guarantees that you are not about to make a totally stupid decision, or one that is severely lacking, or one that could be much better if you would listen to the professional in the area instead of fighting him.
This coming from the guy who regularly rants about having to stop using decades-old software because somebody else decided, in their vast wisdom, that something newer is better.
Is it really a surprise to you that there is more than one valid point of view on the issue?
Yes, end users get bullied by large software companies, but it is also true that software developers get bullied by companies.
None of us is perfect, and none of us is perfectly consistent, and we are all driven more than we like to admit by emotional responses to frustration and pressure when we respond to others. That includes me.
Bingo.
Still, I continue to refuse to accept the notion that software is a service that the service provider is allowed to change without my permission, and then stand there with a mercenary smirk and tell me I will really be better off if I buy his latest and greatest, even if his latest and greatest is slower, or harder to use, or less reliable than what I had before.
I quite agree with this.
Where I, as a software developer, get irked is when someone who does not know software development insists on me implementing something that I can tell is going to be trouble.
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Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko