Justin:
My goal was to get folks thinking about requests in economic terms. Would
you spend your own time/money on that project, then it's most likely
worthwhile, put in a RFE. Then folks will vote as they will. Maybe someone
will follow Thomas' lead and start putting out extensions to RDi and have
open source be a more significant avenue of innovation.
IBM has been putting out new feature/function at a pretty good clip. Some
would say the development environment has a ways to go to catch up to other
environments, In my case I'm happy with what they are doing. That's where
your current licensing fee/maintenance fees are going.
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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From: WDSCI-L <wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Justin
Taylor
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 12:19 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] LPEX Edito For CLLE
"IBM must either sell more copies of RDi or increase the price, or increase
the maintenance fees, or all three if they do all the requests."
If that were true, what's IBM doing with all the RDi income they already
receive?
I understand that the RDi team has limited resources and can't do every
request. That doesn't mean people shouldn't submit requests for things they
thing are important. I personally wouldn't devote any resources to this
request, but other users may feel differently.
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 8:08 AM
To: 'Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries' <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] LPEX Edito For CLLE
If you are willing to spend your money on the RFE, then certainly put it in.
Remember RFEs cost money and IBM must either sell more copies of RDi or
increase the price, or increase the maintenance fees, or all three if they
do all the requests.
Back to my own snarky first sentence, could you not build a plug in that
would edit the CL source as you would so choose? Then either open source it
or put it up for sale. (See book: "The long thin tail". It will explain
why that's the most economically sound plan)
--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
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