From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 6 21:46:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF79037B405 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 31864 invoked by uid 100); 7 Jun 2001 04:46:09 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15135.1809.218307.971553@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:46:09 -0500 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article In-Reply-To: <15134.27666.250178.828032@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010605215604.053fea90@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010605134751.00a9fd90@localhost> <20010604200851.A65559@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B1BE69C.FD401663@pitt.edu> <20010605115941.B83419@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3B1D2BFB.B0256B6@pitt.edu> <3B1D2D30.E122644A@duth.gr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010606201558.00de8e20@localhost> <15134.27666.250178.828032@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass types: > At 11:44 AM 6/6/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Brett Glass 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message