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Posted by Travis Newbury on 10/18/05 13:57
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.
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