Re: Standard Library Interest?

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Marin David Condic wrote:

> It won't work. It hasn't worked.
> 
> If you can at *minimum* get the vendors to give you a nod that says 
> "Yes, if such a thing were done under the control of this organization 
> and with this sort of license and to some level of acceptable quality, 
> we'd get on board and distribute it...", then you've got something. They 
> don't have to commit to the library and wouldn't want to until they saw 
> the net result.
> 
> But if the answer is "No. We will not now, nor will we ever distribute a 
> library built by this organization with that license, etc., - not unless 
> it is totally rammed down our throats by the end users...", then the 
> game is over.

IFF you get this kind of answer from some, most or all of the vendors,
then I would agree that you have a "point". But IMHO, this is unlikely
first of all (its not in their interest to go against what the user
base wants), and certainly not a foregone conclusion. Note the "FF"
in "IFF".

What drives the vendors, is what the "users want". Get them using
your stuff. Get them wanting more of your stuff. IOW, get the users
hooked first (a very time honoured principle). The vendors will
fall in line from there. Demand usually drives business. Only in
creative things like the Segway (sp?) where people didn't know they
wanted one, does it work the other way. But I don't think the
vendors are going to have any kind of a surprise for anyone on
this front. ;-)
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg