> -----Original Message----- > From: Eddie Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:58 PM > To: Struts Developers List > Subject: Re: [Resources] XMLMessageResources and Proposal > > > James Mitchell wrote: > > >I'm involved in this as a way to help others and add to list of > >functionality provided by this framework. Personally, I prefer > >DBMessageResources. (You'll see why when I finish the > Management Tool for > >it) > > > >This topic has been discussed many times, over many months, and it has > >become apparent (to me at least) that providing this functionality can be > >valuable for some people. > > > >My concern is whether it gets included with the distribution....I'm not > >going to continue on it if it is not of interest to any committers. I do > >have other items to work on :) > > > Bah! Isn't "making a contribution to society" far more important than > your "work"?!
Yes, that's what I meant....other Struts stuff. Believe me, I wish I was getting paid to do Open Source. > > >James Mitchell > >Software Engineer/Struts Evangelist > >http://www.open-tools.org > > > <aside> > Yes, that's a joke. Interestingly, back in my college days, we had RMS > (Richard Stallman) come by for a day - very interesting. As I was > leaving campus to go to work, I stopped by for a final "Nice having met > you - thanks for Emacs" kind of chat. It was just the department chair, > Stallman, and myself. When discussing what I was doing (COBOL at the > time - ack!), Stallman went off on some tangent about how it was a waste > of time and he wouldn't do it (write in COBOL, that is). My (obvious) > reply was: "Well, I don't particularly care for COBOL myself, but it's > nice being able to pay bills." > </aside> Yes, paying the bills is import to my wife and 3 kids for some reason ;) If I told you how much I make (right now at least) to do Data Mining, Reporting, and some Web Development (ASP and Java), you would SH#T. Even though I'm not getting paid to write open source, I've got the next best thing. > > -- > Eddie Bush > James Mitchell Software Engineer/Struts Evangelist http://www.open-tools.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
