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Re:Software Inventory by Joel Spolsky by raganwald on Monday July 09, 2012 @12:48PM (#4219015)
True, although software can never be 100% user/customer/community driven. Something Henry Ford something something “faster horses.” Or within my lifetime, if we had take a survey in 1983, how many personal computer users would have voted for “mouse and bitmapped screen” as their top priority?
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Re:Software Inventory by Joel Spolsky by codinghorror on Monday July 09, 2012 @02:34PM (#4219657)
I didn't say 100%, did I? Anyone pushing for 100% of anything is basically crazy.

Also, as for "faster horses", per this article "We have no evidence that Ford ever said those words."

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/henry_ford_never_said_the_fa...

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Re:Software Inventory by Joel Spolsky by grecy on Monday July 09, 2012 @01:43PM (#4219315)
Steve Jobs has a famous quote about hating focus groups.

"You can't ask people what they want because they haven't seen it yet."

(or something along those lines)

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Re:Software Inventory by Joel Spolsky by dllthomas on Monday July 09, 2012 @01:43PM (#4219320)
> [H]ow many personal computer users would have voted for “mouse and bitmapped screen” as their top priority?

I still wouldn't...

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