> > Message: 14 > Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 01:52:44 -0500 > From: Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Different tclug lists > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Quoting Callum Lerwick (seg at haxxed.com): > > people will bother to read the newbie Q&A list, no one will get > > their questions answered and the newbies will wither and die, > > turning tclug in to an elitist society. Which may not be a bad > > thing, but *cough* ahem... Whatever. Blargh. > > Segmenting the list will breed elitism, if there is not enough here It is also the fundamental element that corporations such as microf at ck use to keep you as a customer. It plays on the fears of the consumer so they have no reasonable choice other than to submit to there "place" in the list. I believe that if you look at the 1960's and the troubles that arose during the civil rights movement, you will see the same kinds of segragation. > already. :-) What I have seen work best, is what they do at jdc (java > develop connection) is to give everyone several hundred java bucks to > "seed" the rewards board. Then to exploit the situation by sowing the seeds of capitalism you further pervet the sanctity of knowledge. We are all connected as humankind just as the filesystem is connected by the / . To battle over trivial mental superiority is conterproductive to an obvious common goal we share. That goal as I see it is to be self reliant on our own resources. That is what open source means to me. When you try to filter knowledge in any manner that restricts you from that knowledge you are acting just as the corporation that sells you a broken non-refundable non-repairable product. > > When people post a question, they assign java bucks to it. The person > who answers it first, to the statisfaction of the poster and a > moderator get the java bucks, whicn you can then use on your own > questions OR use them in the Java Online store to buy trinkets and > trash. > > If you REALLY want an answer, you assign it more java bucks. If you REALLY want an answer, give an answer and get and answer and so on and so forth. -Spencer Underground >