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<LI><em>From</em>: Greg Munt <<A HREF="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</A>></LI>
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Has anyone used UML here? Advantages/disadvantages? I'm thinking of using
it to help with the design of my project, having been introduced to it
through Rational Rose.
Also. Someone (John Adelsberger, I think - what a nice man) commented
that the development effort that goes into free software (he was
referring to gcc, I think) is incomparable to that of commercial software..
My experience of the commerical software development industry is: "If
it works, who cares beyond that?"
I was wondering, since there a lot of commercial/professional mud ppl on
this list, what you lot thought about it, when mapped into the mudding
world...?
What do you think of the assertion that, since in a commercial
environment, you have to get something out by a particular time, and
that, so long as the desired functionality is provided, the customer is
happy, then less attention is given to producing a quality product, than
might be given to something produced through a free community? There is
also the thousands of testers available for free products (on the
internet) to be considered, also.
Using a current example - databases - how do things like DB2 and Oracle
compare to products listed in the FreeDB list? Is it a case of high
levels of development/support (in the free industry), versus lots of
money to put into a product (in the commercial industry? Which side comes
out better? (Is this an unanswerable question, perhaps depending on context?)
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00895" HREF="msg00895.html">Heightfield Terrain Rendering Paper</A></strong>,
Niklas Elmqvist <a href="mailto:d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se">d97elm#dtek,chalmers.se</a>, Wed 25 Mar 1998, 15:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00920" HREF="msg00920.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Broken mail headers</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00923" HREF="msg00923.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Broken mail headers</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00880" HREF="msg00880.html">UML/Commercial v Free Muds</A></strong>,
Greg Munt <a href="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</a>, Wed 25 Mar 1998, 03:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00887" HREF="msg00887.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] UML/Commercial v Free Muds</A></strong>,
Nathan F Yospe <a href="mailto:yospe#hawaii,edu">yospe#hawaii,edu</a>, Wed 25 Mar 1998, 06:10 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00900" HREF="msg00900.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] UML/Commercial v Free Muds</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Thu 26 Mar 1998, 04:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00875" HREF="msg00875.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] 3D engines for MUDs</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Tue 24 Mar 1998, 15:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00896" HREF="msg00896.html">3D engines for MUDs</A></strong>,
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