Re: joysick...

[stephan schutter <rhl farorbit com>]

I was not thinking of the enterprize... Besides, Microsoft's Enterprize 
solutions do have this and many other nice-to-have features. I agree 
that an organization may not make their OS choice based on the presence 
of a tool to configure joysticks -- but the presence of such a tool does 
 add to the overall impression of the product; how complete it is.

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, stephan schutter wrote:
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> > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:14:26 -0500
> > From: stephan schutter <rhl farorbit com>
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> > Subject: Re: joysick...
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> > Well... I just thought that one might want to cover all bases... Geeks 
> > play games right?  Anyway, S.u.S.E has included such a tool in Yast... 
> > Why not copy them? Or mandrake... Desktop OSes ought to have tools to 
> > configur all common harware; i thing anyway...
>
>
> For starters, SuSE's YAST tool, isn't open source to my 
> knowledge.  Red Hat isn't likely to devote engineering resources 
> to something useful only for playing video games.  Someone 
> theoretically could do it in their spare time, but having it 
> designated as a must-have solution for the enterprise is 
> unlikely.
>
> It's just not something I can see us spending money developing 
> internally.  It does however make perfect sense being developed 
> by someone sufficiently motivated to volunteer and write such a 
> tool cleanly, or suggest an existing one.  (Or convince someone 
> else to write one.)
>
> Perfectly fits into the community nature of the project for such 
> a motivated individual.