On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, McKeever Chris wrote: > >Agreed. do you realise that the success rate for great ideas has not > >changed much in 30 years of monitoring: It's still 1 in 52. > > > >In other words, we should expect 51 failures before we see project that > >booms. Therefore - no disappointment, next ... :) > > interesting, I wonder though who proclaims the idea as great, the idea > originator or those that are observing it. I would imagine (but I > probably am wrong) that if an idea is truly great, it would be supported > and nutured till fruition by the observers, like Samba and other great > initiatives...if the originator claims it great, it may just be a pipe > dream with very little real work application
Interesting question. Sometimes it's the hype machine that has an axe to grind - most of these fail. It takes a rare form of genius to be like Nikola Tesla, but many die in poverty like him (despite his exceptional visionary innovation and invention). - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
