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Posted by dorayme on 10/19/05 04:21
> From: "Travis Newbury" <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com>
> Dylan Parry wrote:
>> So you are telling me that if company XYZ came up to you and said "here
>> is a contract that will pretty much set you up for the next year or
>> two, but we want a dancing penguin. Your reply would be "I am sorry,
>> my web morals will not let me make such a site for you."
>
> My reply would be "Okay. I'll look in to that 'dancing penguin thing' as
> I have a feeling it will be /very/ expensive, but sure I'll try hard to
> give you the best dancing penguin there is." Then I would spend the next
> two years procrastinating about the penguin, give them something much
> better and they would forget they ever asked for it.
>The procrastinating might get you fired by that one Marketing VP who is
>anal about his dancing Penguin. (And you are making the assumption
>that the dancng penguin and ecommerce are mutually exclusive)
>I am not saying it is "right", or even in the best interest for the
>company, but it is the way the real world works. Humans (especially us
>rich bloviating corporate Americans) like shiny things.
No, Parry has hit the nail on the head about stalling,
influencing etc. That is the real world. You have a fantasy
picture of a hard bitten remorseless uncompromising world. Don't
be so cynical.
dorayme
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