From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 12:28:15 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 4876037B6E5 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:28:13 -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; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:28:43 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000317142138.00af7940@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 14:21:38 -0600 To: J McKitrick , Brett Glass From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000317201500.B20791@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <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 20:15 17-03-2000 +0000, J McKitrick wrote: >How does he suggest that people who love programming make a living? >Waiting tables on the weekends? :( >I'm going to school because i hope to make a living doing what i love, >and getting paid for it, even if that pay is modest in comparison to >other fields. I wipe butts for a living. Literally! While my software is used all over the world, I work for near-minimum wage as a nursing assistant, caring for people with disabilities. My duties include cleaning them up whenever they are incontinent. For years, I was trying the shareware marketing approach, but no one felt like paying for shareware, no doubt part because of the attitude pushed by Stalin. I know it was not because my software was not successful. Indeed, I was quite a celebrity on Fidonet about a decade ago. At that time I experienced a total burn-out, and did not even program for several years. Hopefully, this is about to change. It appears with the growth of the Internet it is again possible to make money by letting people download your software and actually pay for it. Cheers, Adam ===> Whiz Kid Technomagic <=== http://www.whizkidtech.net/ The resource center for webmasters and web users Winner of the Starting Point Hot Site award Winner of the Lighthouse Award Home of the Web Magic Award To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message