RE: Time for a new "Sorcerer's Guide"? (was RE: DTAARA keyword, IN opcode, and sub-procedure) Suspected SPAM:

Yes, well, I've done much more than my share of that in my life in the RPG
world. While I love this market space and want to continue to contribute,
one cannot pay the mortgage, feed the kids, pay for kid's wedding, give
money to charities, etc. by doing everything for free. The other problem
with doing to many non-paying activities is that this market space in turns,
expects you to do everything for free. Not sure why that is, but it has
something to do with notoriety: "You're famous, therefore you are obviously
rich and have some high revenue stream." 
Sadly, if an $80 billion company like IBM can't afford to pay someone like
me or the others on this list who can contribute to the very industry that
helps earn IBM that $80 billion, then altruistic intensions aside, what is
the point? 
I will continue to provide some 40,000+ subscribers with free information
twice a month via my free email newsletter, and contribute to this and the
yahoogroups.com RPG IV list. But to go work for IBM for free for two weeks
or more is never going to happen (again). 

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Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 10:32 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Time for a new "Sorcerer's Guide"? (was RE: DTAARA keyword, IN
opcode, and sub-procedure) Suspected SPAM:

"I doubt that I'll be working on it, what would
be the point/benefit?"

Altruism?

Terry Richardson
Vermont Information Processing, Inc.
terry@xxxxxxxxxx
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