Morten tells us that we shouldn't work for nothing. I do agree.
But let's distinguish between routine / standard work, and pioneering work. Every routine activity has a rate for the job, and it is wrong / silly / unethical / unbusinesslike to offer to work for below the going rate. Any union will tell you that. So will any professional association. Price-wars are destructive and ultimately benefit nobody. But a pioneer must not expect to be recompensed for the real value of what s/he has gifted the world. That is something that can only be judged in retrospect -- and infant mortality among pioneers is high. So high in fact, that a pioneer cannot expect to be recompensed at all. Unless the quest be its own reward. Now J (for me) is a tool for pioneering tasks. APL (for me) is a "business" -- in every sense. Let me emphasise this is a personal view, born of my experience and current needs. If my shoes don't fit you, please don't stand in them. Ian On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > Matthew Brand replied to Morten Kromberg: > >>> True. Dyalog is only "cheap and easy to install" >> >> It's cheap but not free. > > By the standards of most of the Linux world, J is not free either. I > personally have no difficulty with J Software's implementation not > being open source, but it's important enough to some that we should > take care not to imply that it is in that category. > > Tracy > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
