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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:46:09 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article
Message-ID:  <15135.1809.218307.971553@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <15134.27666.250178.828032@guru.mired.org>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> types:
> At 11:44 AM 6/6/2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> types:
> > > At 02:06 PM 6/5/2001, j mckitrick wrote:
> > > >However, there will be needs that will not be filled quickly enough by these
> > > >kinds of programmers, and there will be projects that none of them want to
> > > >do.  So, there will remain a market for programmers-for-hire to fill that
> > > >need.
> > > In short, programmers will be reduced to doing grunt work and dirty work
> > > at low pay.
> >Only true if you define "grunt work" as "more than 30% time spent
> >doing things you don't want to do" and "low pay" as "less than Gates
> >and Ellison make". 
> Which YOU might, but no rational person would.

Absolutely. No rational person would accept those definitions. Being
logical as well as rational, I can see what their being false says
about Brett's original statement.

	<mike
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