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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:10:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzlwqpx2.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080102140921.GB2267@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Wed,  2 Jan 2008 14:09:21 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> As an aside, have you any idea why has this happened?  Having several
> products essentially the same can give a good choice, but having many of
> them is a waste of effort

Because people get attached to various features they like, and though all
these systems offer roughly _comparable_ models, they differ
significantly in the details.  People care about details, it turns out...

-Miles

-- 
A zen-buddhist walked into a pizza shop and
said, "Make me one with everything."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-02 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-02 13:24 It's not yet time to anoint git, or anything else Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 13:30 ` Miles Bader
2008-01-02 14:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-01-02 14:54   ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-02 15:02     ` David Kastrup
2008-01-02 16:36     ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-01-02 19:28       ` Tassilo Horn
2008-01-02 19:58         ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-01-04  5:27       ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-02 14:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-01-02 14:10   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2008-01-02 15:20   ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 14:51 ` Romain Francoise
2008-01-02 15:00   ` David Kastrup
2008-01-02 16:12     ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-06 17:01     ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-06 17:06       ` David Kastrup
2008-01-06 17:58         ` Andreas Schwab
2008-01-02 15:27   ` Eric S. Raymond
2008-01-02 17:04     ` Romain Francoise

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