>>>>> "K" == Ken O Burtch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
K> Two words: no people. You can always relocate a high tech
K> company to the boonies, but you cannot start one there.
Cowards. One of the world's primary suppliers of ocean navigation
satellites is located in Owen Sound. Why? Cheap manufacturing space,
well connected, clean environment, low taxes, low cost of living. They
had /zero/ problems recruiting.
K> Internet has the downside of anominity and few will join you if
K> you are faceless.
I get four or five resumes a week, and at least three times a month a
collegue will beg me to hire them. Unfortunately, I am a dedicated
follower of the "ruthlessly small business" philosophy, so we don't
hire, we contract. And I don't care where you are when I contract
because I have advanced voodoo to get you back if you screw up on me ;)
K> you build a great open source project that people will flock to
K> you. That's nonsense. After all, who the heck am I? Nobody,
K> a faceless avatar lurking on the surface of the Net?
And like, who's the guy in charge of HP? There's a fellow out in
Leith, about 5 min north east of Owen Sound, who made front-pages of
the Exec press back in the 80's when he was CEO of several
corporations from his huge deck overlooking Georgian Bay.
K> balding middle aged guy who has been trying to bootstrap a
K> Linux company for 8 years, turning out award-winning Linux
K> software but having no money to hire people to promote it?
Awards. Don't get me started about awards. I like the comment from
the Xerox marketing head who said "It isn't about click throughs. I
really don't care about that. It isn't about media CPM. It's about
cost per fill-out. That's what we watch." It's the bottom line that I
watch, and I don't mean my middle-age spread ;)
K> A company requires a core team to get it started and the core
K> team has to meet face-to-face and know each other's strengths
K> and weaknesses.
Nonesense and poppycock; you don't /know/ these things, you are
regurgitating the same propaganda that killed several members of Ned
Ludd's "Luddites" -- if you think they were anti-technology, you
probably /also/ think Lemmings commit suicide. Luddites /all/ had the
state-of-the-art Pentium IV on their home desktops. They were
protesting the unnecessary /control/ of human beings for the benefit
of power-tripping industrialists. Make no mistake.
K> Internet is not a team.
You /dare/ to say that to a mailing list of /Linux/ users? Go wash
your mouth out!
So far, without meeting everyone, I have built Sympatico, CBC Regional
News, and did the /entire/ CBC Olympics website without meeting
/anyone/ other than the first meeting with the main boss (first I'd
met Sean in 4 years of working with him)
If you haven't already, check out the "8 minutes of Revolution OS" on
iFilm.com -- I used to be somewhat tolerant of Bill Gates as just a
misguided businessman; I now have more solid incriminating evidence
that he's purposely tried to undermine and destroy free software than
George Bush has on ObL.
K> If anybody's in the Toronto area, come to the PegaSoft meeting
K> Thursday Sept. 19. Maybe I can get out of Toronto faster.
Naw ... why don't you all come up to Sauble Beach and we'll go sit at
Lobbies on the Lake Huron shoreline and watch the sunset ;)
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