2:25:40 PM
This is one of my pet peaves, Dave hits it here on the head in just a few lines in his Why I said Movable Type's RSS support is "funky":
"We should be at a point, as an industry, where we're ready to develop real interchange between products, so that users have choice. Vendors with small installed bases usually want this, and ones with larger bases, usually don't. But not enabling interop is a chicken-shit way to compete. It's a sure sign of a large installed base but an inadequate development team or codebase. "
And again later in the article:
"As adults, we should be a little more respectful, the products should compete on the basis of features and performance, not on being incompatible."
If you create a good product and really believe in it, line it up side by side with your customer's and see what the user's think. Unfortunately all too many are not best products and they don't believe it them. They simply want you to buy the product and then keep having to buy the product. Locking in your users is an evil thing.
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