On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, lee wrote:
[snip] If she had known that she didn`t need to throw in this or that, wouldn`t that be easier for everyone?
Not necessarily. Sometimes neither that absent-minded aunt nor the avaricious nephew know what is most pleasing until it's taken out and played with. Much of what we consider very important today was considered stupid when it first came out. I've had good friends who worked at Xerox PARC back it its heyday, others who worked at Bellcore, and another who worked at that ivory tower in Redmond whose name I forget. They all tell the same story of coming out with neat stuff that the mother ship thought would never catch on. Which is why those neat places almost always end up getting closed down or changed -- not because they don't come up with great ideas, but because nobody in corporate knows what to do with them, or because they are disruptive and corporate doesn't want to change how they do things (e.g. Kodak). And it's not just the corporate heads that get it wrong. Sometimes consumers don't take to an idea before they taste the real thing. So, for new stuff, maybe you just don't know whether you "need" to throw something in until you do throw it in, keep doing it for awhile, and see if it catches on. billo -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
