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On Saturday, November 3, 2018, Studio - PM <<a
href="mailto:studio-pm@hotmail.com">studio-pm@hotmail.com</a>>
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think that you failed</span></span></span></span></font></font></font></strong></div>
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<strong><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
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explain why, and in which sense, I evaluate
the cited “Tech.Reports” as a failure.
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<strong><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
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style="font-weight:normal">Please consider and
mentally compare the potential productivity of
an average Eric IDE user(*) possibly relaying
or NOT relaying upon the related
“Tech.Reports”. Probably incomparable. </span></span></span></font></font></font></strong></p>
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style="font-weight:normal">Well, in spite of such an
obvious evaluation, no one of the many different
User Groups, nor High Tech. tools Producers, nor
Tech. Writers associations I got in touch with,
considered worthwhile to take into consideration my
independ</span>ent<span
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style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span
style="margin:0px;font-weight:normal"> fai</span><span
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style="font-weight:normal"> way of dealing with
tech. doc., as exemplified with such Eric
Tech.Reports. </span></font></font></font><strong><font
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style="font-size:11pt"><span
style="font-weight:normal">Most of them reacted
with indifference, some even expressing annoyance
and disdain. </span></font></font></font></strong><strong><font
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style="font-size:11pt"><span
style="font-weight:normal">In this sense what I
intended, and proposed, as a model of how-to-do,
revealed not convincing enough. In this sense it
was a failure</span></font></font></font></strong></div>
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<div>It is sad, but I think you are right, it is a failure. Despite
of quality of the Eric Tech.Reports. I really think the report was
great and I appreciate your efforts. At the same time the failure
was almost inevitable from the very beginning IMHO. From the
commercial point of view Eric is not so widespread piece of
software that publishers would line up for the commercial book
about it. The only way one can deal with it is to help Detlev make
Eric even greater :). From the community POV your model, while
having good points like user centricity, it has some not very
appealing property - it is closed source. There are many
disadvantages in this property. Most obvious is what is happening
now - you've lost an ability or interest to continue the project
and it is dead. Another one is that it is hard to keep up with the
original project alone, the report quickly became outdated. If
you'd open the sources of the report and, even better, offered to
include it in the Eric itself, then it would had a chance to live
and develop further (and you'd not feel so solitary :)). Another
point is that with open source projects it is important IMHO not
just use the functionality they provide but also to learn from
them and participate in development. In closed source projects all
the fun of development and know-how owner keeps for himself,
leaving users just bug reporting which is not that fun, IMHO
again.<br>
Anyway, thanks for your efforts and good luck in your other
endeavors.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Mikhail<br>
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