Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:28:57PM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote:
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> 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.
>
>
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