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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 02:58:02PM -0700, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Feb 15, 2017, at 2:31 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> No, our biggest strength is standing perfectly still.
> > 
> > I honestly can't tell if people are joking any more.
> 
> It depends on whether you focus on the developer or user perspective.
> We users are getting things done: even those who disagree with my
> point of view talk about design *accomplishments* that they think I
> don’t appreciate. But if your metric is changes in the toolkit, we’re
> not moving very fast. Having come to gEDA from a commercial toolkit
> that forced users to “upgrade” frequently to more complexity with
> brand new bugs and incompatibilities, I do appreciate stability.

Stability does not imply zero changes.

And a zero-changes policy may actually turn otherwise stable software
into unstable software.

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