Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:29:17 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000317152203.00b57b70@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000317150258.00a362f0@mail85.pair.com> References: <4.2.2.20000317134301.00b5ae20@localhost> <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> <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003172221550.1530-100000@theory1.physics.ii sc.ernet.in> <4.2.2.20000317124248.00b5bc10@localhost>
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At 02:02 PM 3/17/2000 , G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >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. :) Well, I'm always impressed and at times amazed by the dedication of nurses. There's such a high rate of burnout, and upward mobility can seem hopelessly limited by the humongous chasm between nurse and doctor. It's important to express appreciation for the work nurses do. > >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'm an ASM hacker myself. Have you played with MMX? >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. I'd love to see some of this. >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. An effects "engine" could have great value. Especially if there were a way to let people generate plug-ins for your plug-in, so to speak. --Brett Microsoft is continually protecting its turf, even if that turf appears to the rest of us as belonging to a company other than Microsoft. -- Robert X. Cringely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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