On 10/18/06, Nico Meijer wrote:
Hi Girish,
> > If you keep saying something good won't happen -- well then you can
> > bet it won't happen.
>
> I don't get your point Theo.
Search the net for "karma" and the "law of attraction". Perhaps that will
give you some insight in what -I think- Theo means.
HTH... Nico
"Karma" and "the law of abstraction" are very abstract.
The more concrete analogy here is that confidence is an asset. In the
case of convincing vendors to support open source, the idea, I think,
is that if you proclaim that vendors who don't do so profit by failing
to do so, they will believe you.
On the other hand, suppose vendors who support open source only do so
because they believe that it profits them, and the only arguments they
take seriously are those involving their profit. This is at least
highly plausible. Should we then not say that because it's not
functionally useful to do so?
-Eliah
