Right On! Michael. Exclusion hurts. Inclusion heals. Somewhere, in my dim, distant memory I remember a poem about somebody drawing a circle to keep others out but that somebody else "had the wit to win. We drew a circle that took him in." Or, something like that.
The reason Apple Computer is less than 5% of the market is a failed strategy of exclusiveness while Bill Gates created freedom for many others to invent new programs for DOS and then Windows, both inferior systems to Apple, but nonetheless, now dominant the world over. Let's all draw a sharp lesson from these two companies. The reason the Tuskeegee Airmen lost ZERO B-17 bombers to enemy fighters was their superior strategy. They knew what their mission was: bring all the bombers back safely (couldn't do anything about the losses to anti-aircraft fire). Hence, when an enemy fighter attacked, they simply drove them off and then returned to the bomber formation. Other fighter-escort squadrons had a strategy of pursuing enemy fighters until they achieved a "kill". That left the bombers unprotected, and those squadrons lost bombers to enemy fighters, with 11 men going down with each bomber. Very bad ratio, to say the least. How does this relate? We have to keep our strategy straight and keep OS open to the world, in an active way, because the world needs it. And, the world needs the understandings of everyone on this list as they develop their deep intuition about "Opening Space", a sacred act, indeed. So, keep opening space, including any and all archieves. My two cents. Paul Everett * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
