Posted by Geoff Berrow on 12/18/56 11:50

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Visionary contained the following:

>> I like to eat, also. You want serious programmers? Pay serious money.
>
>Well as much as I appreciate your rude criticism, I think you totally
>missed what I was saying. I'm not saying "Work for me for free". I'm
>saying I need a programmer who wants to join the team. It's not a paid
>job or anything, just for fun. There are however projects in the works
>that may turn a profit, and if so, you'd get your fair share.

I feel your indignation is less that righteous. You've given very
little to go on other than the name. There are plenty of projects that
people might want to work on for free, charity work, open source
projects, special interest sites, but you've given no indication of the
nature of your project other than in /might/ involve serious work. As
such Jerry is quite right in his view. If you want to get people to work
for free, it at least has to be something that interests them. PHP
programmers have no shortage of things they could do for nothing.

I took the trouble of looking at your site which wasn't terribly
informative either (apart from demonstrating that your cluelessness
extended to web design also - I had to load it intro Firefox and enlarge
the text so I could even read it and then I still had trouble with the
menu items).

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Don't make
matters worse by being upset at the comments here. Learn from your
mistakes.

--
Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
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My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
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