OOOWWW my tail is burnt!!! But I wasnt on the committee... promise.
Sorry about the cat...
So lets get some money into this Foundation, so that, perhaps, Larry
might possibly, if he deserves, get a little more money.
Richard
Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:03:03AM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
No one likes bureacracy. But I feel much happier about handing over money,
or persuading someone else to hand over money, to a group of people with
established procedures and collective responsibility, than to some
enthusiatic individual who promises the earth and whose the
world-number-one genius at code writing, but might also go and blow the
whole lot on girls and booze cos his cat died.
Let me make a clear statement here. I have no trouble with the
committee making its decisions--that's what the committee is obliged
to do. The committee is *not* obliged to feel secure about that;
(nor do I feel obliged to allow them to feel secure about that ;)
nevertheless, the committee is also not obliged to demonstrate its
insecurity by heaping scorn upon such persons of indeterminate feline
attachment while turning them down. A simple "no" would suffice
without the we-had-to-say-this-because-you-suck bits.
By the way, it's possible that I might deserve a little more money,
because *my* cat died last year, and as near as I can tell, I didn't
spend any money on girls and booze because of it... :)
Larry
