[arachne] Re: INFO NEEDED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE DOS/ARACHNE SUPPORT
- From: "L.D. Best" <l.d.best@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:53:29 -0500
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Hiring someone to work on Arachne?????
1. I believe that everyone on the list is a working stiff, or in forced
retirement (ce' moi).
2. AFAIK, none have won the lottery.
3. Where might one go hunting for a competent C programmer (afaik it
must be one flavor or another of Borland C?), who is also fluent in DOS
and wouldn't consider us crazy for asking in the first place ... or else
a bunch of suckers to be bled dry while promises are more prevalent than
alphabet versions of a new Arachne build?
4. Simply because people have sacrificed time, sleep, other projects,
co-worker invitations to go out .... etc etc and so forth .... does not
mean any of us could sacrifice to the extend of hiring someone.
5. Although mention was made of other persons who might be interested
in keeping the Arachne project going, smaller work groups usually work
better and too many cooks spoil the broth and too many contributors can
only mean too many non-parallel expectations/time lines/perceive
requirements. (IOW, any person would be insane to work for ten people
-- let alone 20 or 30 or 50 or 100; contributors would not be a
"company" nor even a "development group" ... no board of directors, no
CEO or CIO or TIO or MVSP to narrow requirements and reporting targets.
6. Last, but not least, throwing money at a problem seldom solves it
... unless the problem is with IRS.
The foregoing is -- as always! -- IMNSHO
l.d.
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