[ronilan]

> One thing I’d love is a Markdown editor that has full integration with Google Drive,

That’s not a technical problem.

It’s a market problem, I nicknamed the “pay or pray dilemma of free software”.

To solve your problem you either:

Pay someone to build a solution on top of Google’s interfaces (Drive API/Chrome extension etc.)

- or -

Pray for Google to provide desired functionality. (Or alternatively for some indi developer to provide said functionality for no rational reason other than their own interest in the problem).

The odds of success are not evenly distributed between the two options.

[Brian_K_White]

This comment reads like a criticism, but I don't see what anyone did wrong.

It's true that to have a thing, you either have to pay for it or pray for it, or make it onesself.

But before any of that, comes discussion if what would even be a good idea or not. Why does it bother you so much that people talk about what they would like?

Some developers actually want users to discuss what they would like, in order to know what to take a chance on building.

Also, it's a perfectly "rational reason" to build something to provide to the world, when you realize just how much you benefit from the world of things other people have built and given away already.

In fact, what is not very rational, is advertising that you don't consider it rational to contribute to community efforts.

[ronilan]

Brian, you are reading it wrong.

That was an observation.

And specifically you are reading the term “no x other than y” wrong.

It actually means x is an attribute of y, or a group, and y is of importance. As in “no player other than LeBron”

It was used in this context in a way similar to “We should send humans to Mars for no rational reason other than to prove that it is technically possible”.

Thus, this comment has no rational reason other than to set the record straight.