On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
> Why would I not give a crap about my work? Sorry but you are far
> off base
> there Ed.
OK, answer this then: if an app you wrote last year stops working on
Vista, how does that affect you? You're long gone from the company,
so it doesn't affect you in the least. It might even translate into
more $$ for you if they call you back to make it work.
Contrast that with Bill's situation, in which he placed all of his
eggs in the VFP basket. If his app stops working, he loses all his
income.
> I disagree with your technology argument as well. Take java for
> the past 10
> + years.
>
> Millions of products, sites, applications, etc were written with
> java. Some
> succeeded and others never saw the light of day. Was it because of
> the
> platform? Probably not.
You've obviously missed my point. Sun could have pulled Java, or
refused to update it for new OSs. It certainly hasn't been in their
interest to do so, but if they had, there would have been nothing
anyone could have done about it. It's their product, and they own the
rights to the source code.
Walking on a high wire without a net is a risk. The fact that you
haven't fallen off yet does not change the riskiness.
> We work in an industry that changes fast. If you were a painter
> I'd say put
> those oil based paints away we don't have time to wait for it to dry.
That's very insightful.
> If you are in real estate and you were into flipping houses because
> you
> could fix it up and sell it quick the world caught up to you as
> well. These
> things happen. It is an side of risk that all business has to be
> aware of.
Of course, this isn't the risk that we were discussing, but why ruin
a good rant by sticking to the subject?
The discussion was about investing your livelihood in a product that
someone else controls. The risk being discussed is that the owner of
that product may choose to abandon or bury it.
> Now why would we as very smart people fail to be aware of it?
Does that mean that you don't think that Bill or others who are
sticking with VFP are very smart people?
If you are aware of the risk and take it anyway, you can't then
start whining about lawsuits and "they owe me" when things turn out
badly.
-- Ed Leafe
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