11 Feb
2015
11 Feb
'15
10:34 p.m.
On 2/11/2015 12:43 PM, Christian Liendo
wrote:
Points all well-taken. But did these
guys ask Evan to write this book? If
Evan was *requested* by a mobile
computing enthusiast community, then
certainly, yes, they should fund his
endeavor.
That begs the question as to whether it
really needs doing it all.
Sure it
computes. Vintage computing currently is just hobby-worthy
and your little Man-On-Street quotes appearing here and there are
hardly income worthy. Your experience compared to the Real Guys on
this list (of which I don't qualify to rank as either) barely qualifies
you as anything, much less a "talking head" for vintage computing.
You're a talking head for MARCH. That's it.
So I have read a number of books about vintage computers and the companies behind them
and they are not written by people who have a passion for the subject and thus take the
time out to write about it. Yes Evan is the talking head for MARCH, but he knows many of
the "real guys" and he communicates with them. So here is a person who is
passionate and has access to people to help him get the correct info on the subject.
Why should
people PAY you to write a book?
Because otherwise it may never be written. Who else
will do it? Not interested? Don't donate. But at least be a
more civil about it.
Point taken, but I found the tone of
Evan's message (and others of his
recently) to be overly self-aggrandizing
and whiny at the same time. If he's
going to post in a public forum, the
forum is entitled to have its
reactions. I'm not asking anyone else
to agree with or share in my reaction.
Had the request been written from a
different angle, with a bit of humility
and lack of complaining about being
underemployed, I would not have been
annoyed by it.
- J.