On 9 Jul 2002, Matthew Rice wrote: > Unlike art, though, most software is written to be useful to someone. > Shouldn't there be a mandate for things like usefulness, originality, > experimentality (it's a word now) and other lofty goals like that.
That's fine. Obviously the person doing it finds it useful :-) More seriously though, it is generally difficult to write OSS which is of NO use to anyone unless it's some Perl Camel in a Camel thing. > We wouldn't want to start giving out grants for people to participate in > obfuscation contests, would we :) But that is art :-) -- Thamer Al-Harbash http://www.whitefang.com/ Alpha Geek of the Toronto UNIX Cabal: "Perfection is a lead pipe and one sorry Poser." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
