Two steps forward, three steps back

[Peter Murray]

Back to the future? In picking up a thread from the list's 
pre-maintenance period:

On 12/22/2004 3:06 PM, Elena OMalley wrote:
 > It goes both ways, of course. Sometimes vendors make decisions based on
 > sloppiness, ignorance, personal convenience, or the previously mentioned
 > lack of resources. Strangely enough, occasionally librarians do the same
 > thing. :)

I wonder if the open source movement is closer to "ideal" of informed 
decisions being made by those closer to the userbase. I'm not familiar 
with the various projects -- does someone have an opinion?


Peter

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