From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Questions about Symbolics lisp machines References: <3C9A12FC.8EC6D8CA@smi.de> <86pu1sfac8.fsf@kirk.localdomain> <87bsdctb3p.fsf@becket.becket.net> <3226103902356257@naggum.net> <878z8gufhz.fsf@becket.becket.net> <87k7rzfae8.fsf@nkapi.internal> <3226190036128798@naggum.net> <878z8efx14.fsf@nkapi.internal> <3226237222867767@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3226277052923656@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:03:58 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1017288238 193.71.199.50 (Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:03:58 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:03:58 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:30392 * Jon Allen Boone | * Maximizing revenues and building communities are goals which eventually | conflict with each other. The rest of your points look pretty solid to me, but I do not understand this. Especially when there is such a move towards "building communites" on the Web, and that is seen as a good thing for marketing and keeping your customers. | So, what's wrong with this model? Not much, but I am curious how you reward people for their contributions. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.