On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 08:53:41 +0000, Steven wrote:
> You've got to be joking. The only "help" Michael gets from
> most people goes like this: "Your carrots give me indigestion;
> please fix." --or-- "My recipes use onions; when are you going
> to grow onions?"
> Then Edenyard wrote:
>> Well said, L.D.! You'd think also that he'd actually FINISH
>> one job (i.e., DOS Arachne) BEFORE starting another (i.e.,
>> Linux Arachne). Will the Linux version have the same continuing
>> problems with memory (V1.61 STILL does!) and red boxes and no
>> Javascript and no https and....
> Oh, boy. Another critic, sitting in a deckchair, telling Michael
> how to grow the vegetables. "Hey Michael, your rows aren't
> straight." "Hey Michael, how come there's no rhubarb?"
> "Hey Michael, hurry up, we're hungry."
>
No, no! What this critic is actually saying is, "Michael - you
offered me this packet of carrot seed and suggested I grow it. I spent
time doing just that and I find that the roots come up above the ground
and the tops grow underground. The carrot-fly attacks some of the
carrots and they're rotten. Also, the slugs come along and the carrots
are very susceptible to attack. They don't seem to have any
resistance at all. I'm grateful for the free seed, but it
really isn't doing what you said and I'm a bit frustrated about the
wasted time, effort and John Innes compost that I've used."
So you're almost right, Steven. He almost doesn't owe us anything,
except to make the time we've invested in testing HIS work worthwhile.
After all, we're testing it for him (as L.D. well pointed out) so that
he can sell it and make himself a few bob. Nothing wrong with that,
but he'd be worse off if it weren't for us.
All the best,
Reclining Ron.
