[Chicago] Altruism vs needing to live

Bob Haugen bob.haugen at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 19:22:53 CEST 2014


Randy, congratulations! Now you just gotta figure out how to survive
on that and whatever tidbits of money you can gather without much
pain, and then you can do anything you want as long as it doesn't cost
much money! Life is good!

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Randy Baxley <randy7771026 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Carl and Bob, btw Bob, 11 days until SSA has to start paying me.  I have
> often wondered about a S.C.O.R.E. type hacking crew.
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Randy Baxley <randy7771026 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> This sort of an answer for Douglas.  Carl and Doug are of course correct.
>> Open Source has always floated around and it continues to become a more
>> organized and powerful way of doing things.  There will always be seepage to
>> the proprietary side.  In a perfect model Carl, Sheila, three Brians, two
>> Adams, you and I would never have to worry that any of our needs would be
>> met.  There has been shareware, freeware and such.  There is code that needs
>> writing even when there is not money to pay us either because others will
>> not see the need for it until the code is handed to them or because the lazy
>> *** paid to write such things are *** or because there is code that is like
>> medicine.  No one needs it but everyone wants it.  If folks here felt they
>> had to be paid for everything they do you would have gotten no answers to
>> your question without first submitting a payment method.
>>
>> Minutes 35 through 38 of this are very interesting as is minute 43.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMJil4Hzjjs#t=2077
>>
>
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