19 Dec
2003
19 Dec
'03
6:31 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, John Lawson wrote:
All this is getting to the definition of the
boundaries between
'amateur' and 'professional/commercial' and where we, as private
collectors and hobbyists, stand in realtion to these issues. Also the
perennial love/hate eBay issues come up - what aspects of commercial
legacy computing helps the Hobby? What damages it?
While this has always been and remains a (cherised) hobby for me, it is
also a very commercial interest as I have turned it into such for myself
(mostly because I don't want to have a real job). Heck, every message I
post is a blatant advertisement (see the proof below).
Look, there's enough to go around for everyone. This mailing list serves
a panorama of various uses: hobbyist, commercial, even sociological (in
the future, people will surely study our messages to understand the
dynamics of a dysfunctional online group :) People in business who need
old computing resources would be stupid to find out about us and then just
pass us by thinking that they shouldn't disturb our cozy little world.
So in conclusion, what I'm trying to say is that I agree with Juan.
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