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."
next prev parent 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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