Re: Freebies!

[Laura Lopez <laura.lopez@TRINET.COM>]

On the other hand, the value of being able to share information within a
community is a benefit for us all. Even those who are experienced
programmers need to ask questions sometimes and frankly the smartest
programmers know there is great value in having user groups like these.
Beginners are a challenge, but then we all started somewhere and who knows,
perhaps a newbie will come up with new better ways to do things. Today's
newbie will be an expert in a few years and your kid or mine may expect
help. Hopefully, people remember to pay back in some way.

If you don't want to share your knowledge, don't. But next time you make a
"withdrawal" from the community, you should ask yourself what you have
contributed recently. If this becomes an " I'll show you mine after you've
shown me yours " arrangement, the community dies.

Let me leave you with a definition of the word PARASITE and caution you not
to be useless to a society from which you derive benefit.
PARASITE >> "Applies to one who clings to a person of wealth, power or
influence or is useless to society"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Thorburn [SMTP:thorburn@CONL.NET]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:50 PM
> To:   SQR-USERS@list.iex.net
> Subject:      Freebies!
>
> Dear Fellow SQR Programmers:
>
> With the economy the way it is, I would suggest restraint in handing out
> sophistiated
> programing solutions to non-programmers for free.
>
> I like the exchange between skilled SQR programmers, and the question and
> answers diapogue where the asker of the question is at least enough of a
> programmer to ask the right question.  However, supplying programming
> freebies to those who would otherwise hire or retain programming staff or
> contractors is contrary to the best interests of programmers like
> ourselves!
>
> Take a moment to consider the questions and to distinguish between those
> which deserve an answer and those which are trying to circumvent using
> skilled programmers.
>
> In this ecomony we cannot afford to give away freebies!
>
> Think about it programmers!  This is YOUR resource, not your clients!
>
> D.