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RE: Paid people are also very talented

So are volunteers...

?Ok, linux lovers. The pyramids were built using skilled labor and it was paid for. No slave had the intelligence to use trig to align the structure with the Dog Star, Sirius. They also had to be craftsmen to do finishing work. No Pharoah would invest that kind of education in a slave.?

No the actual physical, back breaking labor was done by slaves. The design and concepts came from the educated class, and the final touches from the artisans.

?Paid labor has longer lasting power than volunteer labor. Less burnout. Look at any non-profit organization. The officers are a wreck in 1-2 years. You cannot get the people to do the necessary boring work. There is no paycheck held over their head to enforce disipline. That gets old after awhile.?

Does it? Seems to me that volunteer labor has been around for a very very long time and shows no weakening or dying off. Matter of fact I am seeing a surgance in volunteerism in many sectors of business. As for the ?boring? work, it will get done. There is always someone that will do it. Keep in mind for some people money is not a motivator and it never will be. And as for discipline, many do not respond well to threats, so holding a paycheck over their head... to use your own words, for many is non-effective. Like me for instance, who cares. If you allow yourself to become indebted to a corporation or company where you need them to survive, then you are a fool with your financial stability.

?If the open source were to construct pyramids, they would fork into cubes, spheres and polyhedrons. They would leave a legacy at the archeology site with many large glass pitchers with a smile face on the side. It would be the valley of the Koolaidius. There would be many skulls laying around with cracks in them suggesting working as a team was not practiced. However their sphinx had the head of Linus and the body of a bird with flippers. Inside one of the structures was a sarcophagus with a mummy. In his hands was a book with a title, How to Open Source Everything for Dummies.?

Your funny!

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