Re: Learning C++
In article <4b4decb1$0$20226$a729d347@news.telepac.pt>, Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> wrote:
tanix wrote:
Would you like to do some work for someone and not get a
piece of bread on your table?
There are quite a lot of people involved in voluntary work and they don't see
any problem with that.
GOOD.
I invite ANYONE to participate in a project I know is significant.
Be my guest.
You know how to find me, right?
Do you perceive that to be a problem?
Nope. I don't.
I just wish I find a few people to help out with the project
and that project is something that improves the information
quality. That is all I am willing to say about it.
Otherwise, it will be some stoopid self-promotion.
Look around and see if you can find it.
If you can, and if it turns you on enough,
there is PLENTY of work to be done,
and I'll do my best to make sure it is not just a waste
of your energy.
I think this isssue is LONG due to be resolved.
We just need to start looking at it and pass our ideas
and words to politicians, employees and to each other.
What issue? Voluntary work?
If you did not strip the context, I could probably answer it
precisely. :--}
I suggest you don't strip the context.
Ok, one of issues is this:
If I do some work, it is worth something, no matter who thinks
what. Unless I am corrupt of course and my motives are simply
to pretend I did something just to gain some benefit.
And if I am willing to create something and I am willing to
make it available to others, then we need to make sure that
people that contribute are not simply thrown into a garbage
can and are not told: well, too bad if there is no one who
is willing to pay you for it. If you can not create something
we can have a ride on, then just die like a dog.
Clear enough?
Cause THAT model is not going to work from now on.
In fact, that model is going to be totally destroyed.
Destroyed from within.
It will simply fall on itself.
The times of maximization of the rate of sucking
of the blood of many by the few
are over.
It is a totally different game now.
With the brains of software guys I BET you there is a reasonable
solution that will allow everyone to get a benefit of it
at a MUCH more attractive prices and, at the same time,
to assure that people that do some crative work do get taken
care of. For one thing, they'll have more time to document
their code and hopefully write a better user documentation.
Because they know they are going to get paid and not merely
waste their lives away doing something for nothing.
Your statement is very odd. What exactly do you see as "doing something for
nothing" and why exactly do you believe that a problem?
I mean when you do some work, that, by itself, justifies your
existance, and the basics of that existance is food, clothes,
and shelter as far as psysical matter goes. You should not be
simply abandoned without your BASIC needs covered.
The problem I see in "free software" is people take it for granted
and are not willing to pay even a few bux to support the authors
of the software they are using. And it is running rampant.
Because they are peddled this idea of "free coke", they think:
well, if there is a "free coke", there must be a "free software".
There is no free cheese.
Unless the cheese makers actually give it away for free, willingly and
intentionally.
Are you so naive?
"The only free chese is in the mouse trap".
Ever heard?
Rui Maciel
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