From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 11:23:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!east1.newsfeed.sprint-canada.net!news.storm.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B83F894.D7082F9A@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS References: <9IFe7.12813$6R6.1221214@news1.cableinet.net> <9lghqu$ac6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7C3293.76F49097@home.com> <9lhefg$lgd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0108171856.18631c4c@posting.google.com> <3B7F624B.7294D24F@acm.org> <9lr6je$5hj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ltoi7$4is$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B82789B.8D195045@home.com> <9ltuo8$70n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B829450.879B0396@home.com> <9m0d08$51j$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B83DE1A.7770DC9C@home.com> <9m0rc6$ak0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 18:23:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:23:16 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12268 Date: 2001-08-22T18:23:16+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > I would suggest that what you are talking about looks an awful lot like > "barter". "I'll contribute X and Y and Z if you'll contribute A and B and > C." (And a bunch of other people get a free ride after you've got your > exchange) I suppose that is a way of looking at it. > My point can be illustrated by the following two hypothetical propositions: > > 1) Please come mow my lawn out of the joy you get from spending time in the > sun and the thrill you get looking out the window at my nice tidy yard and > the exercise you get by taking the lawnmower out for a walk. I promise to > say "thank you" and maybe even give you a glass of lemonade when you're > done. > > 2) Please come mow my lawn because if you do, I'll give you > $1,000,000,000.00, a six-month-long cruise to the Bahamas on your own > private yacht, You'd have to show my the money first ;-) > with your own private, and very accommodating, all-girl crew > who are backed up by a small team of experts who's job it is to dream up new > and interesting ways for them to be nice to you. As a married man, the rest may be "interesting", but otherwise has no practicle incentive. > Which hypothetical proposition is more likely to attract lawn crews to my > yard this Saturday? I hear ya. > That's what I mean about finding a way to structure a project such that the > participants stand to gain something besides a warm, fuzzy feeling from it. > A partnership of developers that stand to gain some kind of financial reward > from developing an OS are far more likely to produce an OS that works > sometime before Hell freezes over than will a crew of hobbyists who stand to > gain very little from contributing to the project except personal > gratification and the potential to tempt others into writing software they > can use under similar terms. However, as you well know, partnerships can also be complicated. When I get home from work, I don't like "complicated", but that is just me. ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg