On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:28:57PM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote: <snip> > Let's say you're a barn builder. People need barns and are used to buying > barns now-a-days. You go around to the community and suggest a community > barn-raising project. Everyone agrees but you soon find out the participants > are barn users and not barn builders. The community is more than happy to > use the barn you give them for free if you'll do it for free. You talk to > your family and they remind you that they'll starve if you build barns for > free. So you offer to build barns for a price and you find that people are > willing to buy the barns because they don't want to learn barn-building. More like one day I woke up an realized: god, these barn-builders sure are selling shitty barns. I think I'll build with sod instead :-)
It would be different if some people had gold-covered barns, but everybody with a closed-source O/S is sitting there in a crappy barn, saying "this is how barns should be; write a whitepaper on how the door shouldn't be closed, anyway." > The quilting bee in the church basement, on the other hand, is a well-oiled > machine because there are enough quilters that can do the work and enjoy it > and they all get quilts out of the deal which is good because it gets chilly > at night around there. So they turn up regularly to quilt and talk trash > about the people that are not quilters - especially that barn builder that > first said he was going to build a free barn for everybody in town but later > changed his mind and how he should just get a barn-raising group together and > everybody should help to build barns for everone in the group just like they > do with quilts. > > I can relate to the barn builder in my own endeavors. I sure like that quilt > on my bed too. > -- > Mike Mueller > 324881 (08/20/2003) > Make clockwise circles with your right foot. > Now use your right hand to draw the number "6" in the air. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
