Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-18 Thread Ben Reser
ething different. > It *is* possible for experienced entrepreneurs to make incorrect > determinations or decisions. Take me, for example Granted... this is simply a matter of my opinion. It's based upon the information that I have at hand. Additional information of course coul

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Reser
er than that when they actually pay it off. You better get started on those cookies though. :) -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is th

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Reser
they will > control the financial decisions. Hopefully this will enable the team to get > on with what they are best at, developing a distro. Despite the struggles > people have with betas, often forgetting that they are in fact betas, we like > what we get. I have no idea really

Re: [newbie] non-profit??

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Reser
o move to I would have just moved. But the fact is the alternatives are either: a) Technically insufficent. b) Have closed development processes. c) Laking a good community. d) Simply a pain to install and use. This is a summary, I won't mention names or point fingers to avoid turning this int

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Reser
ve in spite of this? This is a question to which I do not have the answer. Though we will all find out with time. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence o

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Reser
was written. So unless I'm a time traveler I couldn't have possibly have known about the bankruptcy filing. Further, I'd been writing the article since the 29th of December. It's timing was simply conicidence. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org &quo

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Reser
to save a dying company. If it survives great. But I will not be standing there doing CPR on it. Especially, not when there is an alternative, as I presented, for the community. We'll all just have to wait and see what happens over the next few months. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Reser
een price and market perception. When I sold Universal Commerce, Inc. to Digital River in 1999 we had one of the more expensive transaction processing services. The business is still operating to this day, with roughly the same pricing and for a long time was the only profitable portion of their