[openbeos] BE_CHECK_HUMOUR_VALUE
- From: Helmar Rudolph <helmar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 17:31:24 +0200
Hehe.... this is really funny. Here I am, proposing
something unique that could potentially lead to this
project/organisation having enough cash to pay - even hire -
programmers, thus almost ensuring that once things come to
the crunch, the project/org can pony up no matter what (or
just blow it all on beer and coffee), and before you can
spell "value", it turns into a capitalism vs free software
vs 'the unprivileged and exploited mass' discussion; one
member felt obliged to trash the payment channel I suggested
(for discussion purposes); someone else even unsubscribed from
the list probably because he was low on "let someone else
have his say too" skills; others were just not getting the
point at all.
if(!BE_TOLERANT)
{exec_shell(unsubscribe);}
With all the coding talk on this list, I actually liked this
short interlude of divergent human expression. It showed so
much more the human face of someone than a discussion about
pointers, classes or icon sets. It also showed how many
people really got it, and who just needed to chime in to say
something. And even if I didn't like it, I respected and
tolerated it.
Now that we are back to normal, I trust my idea didn't make
it. No hard feelings - I didn't expect anything else, to
be honest. ;)
Helmar (who didn't leave BeUnited because he wanted to go
"commercial" but because those who were supposed to do some
work there were too _unreliable_ - big difference)
--
"You work seven days a week, under all this pressure, and
for what? So that people can shop on the Web? Half the
world is starving to death and you want to devote your life
to saving people from having to get into their car and
drive to the mall? That?s criminal."
- Daniel Lyons?s character Reily?s girlfriend Maria in
'Dog Days' (Simon & Schuster, 1998)
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