From js@cs.nmt.edu Sun Mar 31 14:02 PST 1996 Return-Path: Received: by silicon.csci.csusb.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA19086; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:02:10 +0800 Received: (from js@localhost) by sphinx.cs.nmt.edu (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) id OAA22189 for dick@csci.csusb.edu; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:52:10 -0700 Message-Id: <199603312152.OAA22189@sphinx.cs.nmt.edu> From: js@cs.nmt.edu (John Shipman) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:52:09 -0700 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: dick@csci.csusb.edu Subject: Comments on your `one size fits all' paper Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1859 Status: RO A friend pointed me at your paper. I enjoyed it. I think this is an important contribution and hope you publish it. I hope you don't mind my pointing out a few minor textual corrections. +-- | First to Market then Looses +-- Loses +-- | How Can the First Mover Loose? +-- Lose +-- | Revized Feb 28th 1996. +-- Revised (your spelling may be an acceptable British Empire spelling, but I'm not sure---it would certainly be `revised' in the USA) +-- | academics are proposing theoretical methods that have not been tested in | pratice. +-- practice +-- | This means we must study and catelog +-- catalog +-- | which software is developed. We can extract from new methods from current +-- Delete first `from' +-- | practice. we also need +-- Capitalize `We' +-- | new methods for looking at existing an software +-- Delete `an' +-- | development systems and finding ways to to improve them. +-- Delete one `to' +-- | rather than a delayed but better product. However counterballancing +-- counterbalancing +-- | First to Market then Looses +-- Loses +-- | argument that a quickly developed product may win the market, but loose in +-- lose +-- | a normal or Gausian distribution: A tail of early adopters.... +-- Gaussian +-- | How Can the First Mover Loose? +-- Lose +-- | more bugs and misfetaures. +-- misfeatures +-- | hubris perhaps) gives new comers an advantage +-- newcomers +-- | extreme example addictive drugs are profitable, but not exceptable +-- acceptable +-- | has a high contractual power if (1) the user protected form errors +-- the user *is* protected *from* errors +-- | interlectual property rights. +-- intellectual Thanks again for an interesting paper. -- John W. Shipman, Zoological Data Processing, 507 Fitch Ave. NW, Socorro, NM 87801; (505) 835-0235; js@cs.nmt.edu; http://nmt.edu/~john/