From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 13: 9:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19EDB37B815 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:09:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r3.bfm.org [216.127.220.99]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:10:02 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000317150258.00a362f0@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:02:58 -0600 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000317134301.00b5ae20@localhost> References: <3.0.6.32.20000317142138.00af7940@mail85.pair.com> <20000317201500.B20791@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <4.2.2.20000317124248.00b5bc10@localhost> <4.2.2.20000317090329.041ccde0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000317124248.00b5bc10@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 13:44 17-03-2000 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: >You're a saint. Hehe. It's a job. And I do like helping others. It also keeps my mind off bits and bytes every so often, so I don't forget my humanity. :) >True. The trick, as I see it, is to add value in a way that is difficult >for someone like Stallman to undermine. I have some ideas for that.... >Interested in becoming part of a new company? I might be. Though I am determined to make it on my own very fast now. I have worked on some image editing routines for a couple of years, written in pute assembly language. I have created a suite of Photoshop plug-ins that use them (still in beta), and will offer two versions: A free one for anyone to grab, and a "pro" one available to those who register. Yes, I believe this has an added value that Stallman cannot undermine: It is in assembly language, so it is very fast and requires very little memory. It is for Windows only at this time, but I coded it in NASM syntax with ifedfs included, so once it is fully tested, I can reassemble it for FreeBSD as well. Another added value, which stems from the first, is that it contains many effects, virtually unlimited, so I can market a single Photoshop plug-in that can produce thousands of different effects. I have resisted the temptation of splitting it up into a number of plug-ins and marketing each separately. That might bring me more money, but I am only interested in making a decent living, not necessarily in milking as much as possible. Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message