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Re: Abbreviation for markup?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Abbreviation for markup? |
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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:08:58 +0100 |
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Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi David,
>
> 2012/1/30 David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
> [...]
>> We have established that it does not make sense to divert work setting
>> up generic channels when there is, at the current point of time, a
>> single taker and not even enough to go around to support him.
>
> How to do it different? Should every person, interested in supporting
> you, contact you offlist and ask for your bank account?
Well yes, that would be the procedure for larger and/or regular
payments. Smaller amounts can go through PayPal for now.
> [...]
Let me reinsert a relevant part of the [...] here for the sake of our
readers:
>>> But I'm disappointed about your statements about experienced users.
>>> You're right, I'm quite sure I could have solved Helge's problem.
>>> But I decided to answer to Brent because he was first. The rest of the
>>> day I visited a good friend being in her very last period of lifetime
>>> at the hospital.
>>>
>>> So - very british - I'm not amuzed.
>> And I don't think that any number of postings along the line "Dude, how
>> come you expect something from me? I, as opposed to you freaks, have a
>> life." will really turn the balance to the better.
Wouldn't you say that this is what your passage boils down to? Mind
you, there is nothing wrong with you having a life. But there would be
nothing wrong with me having a life, either. And eating, heating and
housing is useful for that. And part of your life, apparently, is
filled with music. And keeping LilyPond in good shape is useful for
that.
> In an other mail of this thread you wrote:
>
> "Knowledge organizes in pyramids. And one can't build those without the
> intermediate layers."
>
> Will it turn the things better if you alienate all people not
> satisfying your expectations?
I am not enough of a diplomat to win a single person-to-person battle in
the fight to get people to put their money rather than their foot where
their mouth is. And even if I were, I would not be getting the
equivalent of the time and stomach aches and sleepless nights I spend on
them.
I can be pretty sure that everyone I start arguing with is lost to my
cause. But I learn to lose in more embarrassing ways. I don't have the
resources to win a single battle in my fight for funding LilyPond
development. But that is less important than winning the war, and that
is won in the hearts of the bystanders. I need more of them than I can
address individually. How many battles did Gandhi win?
I've been a gentleman about funding while being maintainer of AUCTeX
(and, at some time, its prime developer). That did not even by far get
me back the travelling fees for conferences where I taught people how to
make use of the stuff I gave them. You don't beat a sense of economic
decency into enough people by being discrete and humble. There is
nothing new with that: I again refer to Wilde
<URL:http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DevFri.shtml>
It is a bit of a painful spectacle for those that actually do the right
thing without prodding. I wish they were not outnumbered as severely,
but then I have to work with what I got.
--
David Kastrup
- Abbreviation for markup?, Helge Kruse, 2012/01/29
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, David Kastrup, 2012/01/29
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, Helge Kruse, 2012/01/29
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, David Kastrup, 2012/01/29
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, Shane Brandes, 2012/01/29
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, David Kastrup, 2012/01/29
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, Thomas Morley, 2012/01/29
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, David Kastrup, 2012/01/29
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, Thomas Morley, 2012/01/29
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- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, Thomas Morley, 2012/01/30
- Re: Abbreviation for markup?, David Kastrup, 2012/01/31