Yes, and like many turtles, they never get there.
Believing in fairy tales is not a good basis for conducting business. The
turtle and rabbit story is a way to tell average children 'yes, you might
be stupid and slow, but you should keep trying'. I don't think you should
take it too seriously.
Hani
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
> OSS is like the turtles. They slowly craw along, and the best eventually get
> there. In the early days, folks would say "Apache who"? Oh yes, that's the
> opening band for the Beatles. Postgresql? Is that what Goldilocks ate in
> the three bears? And these are the same people who, when they first heard
> the name Beatles, they said "call the bug exterminator." And when they
> heard the name Rolling Stones, they say, "where's the avalanche?"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:03 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea
>
>
> <flamebait>
> Unlike all those OSS products huh.
> </flamebait>
>
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
>
> > It has been said that if Bill Gates stopped to pick up a hundred dollar
> bill, he would be losing money. On a more serious note, it's really not the
> Bill company code so much, as their practice of releasing alpha or beta
> quality products as production quality.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:06 AM
> > To: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea
> >
> >
> > Generally, I agree with the comment about Micro$oft quality of code,
> though
> > I've seen some pretty horrible code from outside the US, too. :)
> >
> > Bill Gates may be from the US, but Micro$oft employees come from all over
> > the world. Visit Redmond, WA, USA and you'll see for yourself.
> >
> > At 09:50 AM 4/19/01 +0200, you wrote:
> > >And Micro$oft programmers are from...?
> > >
> > >I suppose that the country they're from produce the shittiest code of em
> all
> > >:)
> > >
> > >Johan
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM
> > >Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea
> > >
> > >
> > >> Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is
> Sweden
> > >> full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways just
> to
> > >> make the rest of the world's jobs harder.
> > >>
> > >> I say we all start using Bavarian products, if only because Bavarian
> names
> > >> seem to have a better vowel/consonant ratio.
> > >>
> > >> Say, Randy... what country are YOU from? (That's the leading indicator
> for
> > >> quality of code...)
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:49:24AM -0500, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote:
> > >> > Now this may be a dumb idea, and I am just thinking up brainstorms to
> > >promote Orion, but it occurred to me that both Mysql and Orion are in
> > >Sweden. Now I don't know how big Sweden is, but perhaps a meeting
> between
> > >the two teams could find ways to mutually promote or bridge the two
> > >products. Just a thought. Speaking of Sweden, since Rickard O. from
> Jboss
> > >lives there, does anyone know of Magnus or Karl have meet him? In once
> > >sense, but Jboss and Orion are trying to make this EJB technology
> available
> > >to more people.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> -----------------------------------------------------------
> > >> Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> http://epesh.com/ IT Consultant
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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