ProtoCiv: porting Freeciv to Python CANNED

Peter Ashford me at here.there.com
Wed Jan 14 16:50:44 EST 2004


>>>>There are plenty of things you can get out of starting, getting
> 
> involved
> 
>>>>with, and approaching open source projects.  A legion of personal
>>>>servants is not going to be one of them, and only a crass idiot would
>>>>think otherwise.
>>>
>>>As far as I've been able to discover, life is just one long cocktail
>>>party in Brandon's honour. So it isn't exactly surprising that
>>>everyone appears to him as just another waiter with a tray of drinks.
> 
> 
> Is there something fundamentally *wrong* with recognizing how useless people
> are to your purposes?

*Recognising* that people aren't useful for your purposes is sensible. 
*Criticising* people for not being useful for your purposes when they've 
never claimed or aspired to be is dumb.




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