| Re: personal license problem [message #52809 is a reply to message #52709] |
Fri, 02 March 2007 14:19   |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Kenneth Bowman writes:
> I raised another issue that I think is important for the IDL community. They
> have set up IDL and ENVI forums accessible through their web site
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> http://www.ittvis.com/forum/choosecategory.asp
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> In my view this leads to the creation of two separate user communities,
> one that uses this group, and one that uses their forums.
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> I am wondering whether there might be a technical solution to this, or
> whether we need to think about moving this discussion to their web site,
> and whether they would feel obligated to moderate (censor) postings
> in their forum, among other things.
Maybe it's just me, but I find web-browser based forums like
this clunky to use. The interface just gets in the way too much.
(Maybe I'm just wedded to my newsgroup browser.) It gives me
a very limited view of what is available to me, and I spend too
much time hitting the BACK button. I already waste too much time
hanging around the newsgroup. Wasting more navigating a forum
like this doesn't appeal to me.
> Perhaps we need to keep a free and independent channel, but I don't really want
> to spend the time going through two different user forums.
I think it very unlikely that you would have a free and independent
channel on a vendor site. But I don't think we can even decide. The
Internet is too diffuse and non-centrally organized. Groups will
form, and information will get out, despite all efforts to control
it. In the end, people will congregate where their questions get
answered. I know which user forum I would bet on, if I were a betting
kind of person. I'd go where the jokes are. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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