[mythtv-users] Let's get our heads straight here on listings solutions

jedi at mishnet.org jedi at mishnet.org
Fri Jun 22 19:42:38 UTC 2007


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>>On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:26:33PM -0500, jedi at mishnet.org wrote:
>
>>> As far as changing the tide goes...
>>>
>>> I suppose your right. No one would ever follow a freak from MIT
>>> that never bathes or some kid from Helsinki that has an unhealthy
>>> fixation with penguins.
>
> Go back and read the original post and re-read the motivational logic.
> Your
> examples here don't apply. All of those people did what they did for
> purely
> selfish reasons. (Linus wrote the linux kernel because he was sick of the
> high UNIX licensing costs etc) They were followed for the same motivations
> (people wanted what they provided). They had the "Ferrari electric car"
> thinking. They didn't come up with a horrible idea and ram it down
> everyone's throats. They did something people wanted. End of story.
>
>>>
>>> ...and no Fortune 500 CIO would let you run an Enterprise RDBMS
>>> on software cobbled together from across the globe by dreamers,
>>> hippies and potential competitors.
>
> Of course they would, if it served their interests (cost savings, higher
> profits etc).
>
> You really aren't following the logic here. Every action is in some way

   Sure I am. I am merely not fixating on the distance between where
we are and where we want to be and despairing because that gulf seems
insurmountable.

   Large changes don't manifest themselves overnight.

   Stretch your mind and start thinking past the next 90 days.

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