gEDA-user: Why use gEDA? [OT]

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

On 3/7/07, Dave N6NZ <n6nz at arrl.net> wrote:
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> al davis wrote:

> >
> > As a teacher, try to emphasize this, even in the tests.  The
> > highest grades go to those who can dig in and solve strange
> > problems.
>
> Absolutely.  As a hiring manager, I'm only interested in people who can
> tackle difficult, unsolved problems with whatever tools happen to be
> available.  It's that "over, around, or through" mentality that makes a
> good engineer.

As an engineer I try to work around the problems that arise when
somebody, that is mostly a sysop, think he knows more than me just
because he is the sysop and have the root password. I think that every
engineer should shout out loud when his favourite tool is not
installed on the system. "tackle difficult, unsolved problems with
whatever tools happen to be available" is a reality show scenario for
entertainment on TV. For real day-to-day work the engineer should be
able to decide himself what tool he wants to use. Emacs, vim, nedit or
whatever should always be installed on the system in the newest
version. KDE, Gnome, fvwm etc. should be possible to change with the
edit of an environmental variable in the login shell control file. If
a package of whatever is missing on the system, it should be enough to
run a command to have it installed. But that is the ideal world. With
linux and open source this should be possible, but it is still a long
way to go.
-- 
Svenn