Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...

[Doc O'Leary]

In article <mailman.10316.1387909847.10748.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
 Ivan Vuãica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue Dec 24 2013 at 6:20:18 PM, Doc O'Leary <
> droleary@7usenet2013.subsume.com> wrote:
> 
> >   In science, criticism often rises to a level above that of
> > mere opinion.  If you don't like that, you're in the wrong field.
> >
> 
> Then it's really good that I'm in engineering and not in science.

That may well be the case.  The physics behind building bridges is not 
the same thing as building bridges.  That's why it doesn't surprise me 
when I see a lot of software engineers who push to code, code, code.  
But they should at least be competent enough to see that that is not the 
whole of the picture.  Sometimes the nature of things (e.g., habitat on 
Mars vs. Earth) requires that they be built quite differently.  
Sometimes a project makes no sense at all (e.g., build a perpetual 
motion machine).  Without a scientific context, engineering is just so 
much busywork.

I'm still trying to figure out where GNUstep lies in that bigger 
picture.  If it is just about raw engineering then, yes indeed, you are 
going to contribute to it more than I will.  But don't go expecting the 
world to pat you on the back for building an *awesome* bridge to nowhere.

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