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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (2156)	2/14/2000 6:25:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) of 2615

I think the Apache programmers wisely stayed away from IBM's offer of mammon and indolent leisure by snootying the offer for the corporate mammoth's request to own APACHE (pun on a-patchy, get it?). I would have spurned bug blue as suitor too. But is their quest for non-fame and non-fortune perhaps a little too modesto? I mean if you charged every nerd what they would willingly pay for it at the mill rate they would do very well. How would you do this? I vote we set up a shareware author's emporium of software rent collection. Small micro rents would be charged for software of micro payments in full and they would accumulate in a central repository. When they got to the point where they paid to pay they would be billed to the ISP or yourself. (at 50 bucks let's say) The software would be timed out in say three or four months if not paid. If you set the software so it had to be registered at the site every so often in order to work then the payment could be enforced. Nobody likes bills and time out software and lots of people procrastinate but for the life of us how else is a programmer going to be paid for his time at any rate? If you set the timer to register by PGP or RSA code after so many boots or so much time, then it would be hard to defeat. The code would have to be tied to the site where it would get its re-registry at each boot or upon each day or it would cease to operate. I too have been wittingly, dupedly and unwittingly assiduously been pursuant of non-fame and non-fortune. It has been working wonders. Tons of cash has not poured in so far. If anyone wants the formula for spectacular lack of financial success it's fer sale. :) Send one dollar for and a stamped self addressed envelope and I will describe exactly what I do and don't do to earn this self-awarded accolade as the world's most unsuccessful man. There is not guarantee if the formula is exactly reversed with vigour that the end effect will be reversed. In fact, it might be amplified. It is possible to get negative results and compound lack of success with every increasing rates of failure. This is judged by the amount of non-compliance with any stated goal. To achieve the reverse is the Napoleon effect. You lose grandly while attempting the impossible. There is also the effect where you lose while seeming to win and where you win but not what you aimed for. Aim high. EC<:-}

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