"Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2/28/07, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Which is, of course, how everyone else does it.
>>
>> I happen to agree with your conclusion but this line of argument is
>> exceptionally unconvincing. In fact in this crowd you'll tend to turn people
>> off and lose people if you say things like that rather than convince anyone of
>> anything.
>
> Rather than reinventing the wheel, it often pays to piggyback on the
> solutions others in similar situations have encountered. I'm just
> stating how others provide similar functionality or capabilities. If
> someone dislikes an idea just because the major vendors have done it
> that way, that's their own problem. It's up to the community to
> decide how to proceed given the information at hand.
Except that's not what you're doing. There's nothing wrong with saying "foo
does this clever thing I think we should copy because <insert argument>". Nor
even "foo does this thing, would that help us?" But what you seem to be saying
is "*Because* foo does this thing we can conclude it's a clever thing and we
should do it".
-- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com