From: Alex Combas <alex.combas@...>
Date: 2006-01-30T11:33:52+09:00
Subject: Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...'

On 1/29/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
> I believe Dave is trying to say the inverse.  "We're not a big
> publishing company.  We needed to make things work great for us.  We
> came up with these innovations to do that.  That lead to these
> further innovations that everybody is copying."
>
> I think "Others suck because they try to follow our innovations
> without understanding how we managed to come up with them" is lesson
> you're looking for here.
>
> Rails and Ruby work well together and *that* led to the innovations
> everybody is trying to copy.  Just like The Pragmatic Programmers use
> of version control, instant typesetting and continuous build systems
> led to Beta Books and Fridays.  Trying to copy the Beta Books or the
> Fridays probably won't be as successful for other publishers because
> they don't have the tool-chain PragProg does.

I see where you are coming from now, thanks for clearing this up.
Sorry if I stepped on any toes along the way but the initial
blog lead (me) to strange assumptions.

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Alex Combas
http://noodlejunkie.blogspot.com/