On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, João Pais wrote:
Not that I'm expecting to become rich with the paypal button
BTW I tried to get paid for a contract by PayPal and this was the single most expensive fees I ever got in a money transfer, by very far. Next time, I'm gonna just be very patient and get a real paper cheque be sent over the Atlantic by snail-mail and have it cashed in a proper institution. So even if Desjardins (the cooperative bank of Québec) tells me they need to "freeze" the funds for 7 days or even 14 days, in any case, it's still worth more respect than PayPal. This is not the fault of my employer either, as neither of us could imagine those humongous fees at all. I don't know how it differs for smaller payments. What is your experience ?
(I'm sure it won't even make up for the time already spent working on this),
Don't forget that you also made this for yourself (if you did ?), and that it might have brought you lots of knowledge and experience that you are using in your daily patching ever since. It's like the "time wasted looking for a same bug for 40 hours"... if you take it apart, the usefulness of the hours is much different from what the basic accounting of it would have you believe.
but in order to work even further on this I would have to be cautious, and hope that at some point I get the conditions to sit down, being sure that the month's rent is covered.
I think it works better in situations of vertical integration. Sell customised solutions built around your patch. That's how you get more control on the financing of your patch and of your life. But I don't really have much of a lesson to teach. It's not like I can make a real living out of that alone either, it's more that it seems a lot more likely than waiting for PayPal.
Joao didn't say it is a goal in itself, he just prospected a likely future. While it is not necessary, project often (or even usually) do grow in complexity as further work is done on them.
once again, the reply I would have written myself.
I said that, about complexity, because it seemed like a piece of the explanation was missing.
Why won't they ? and then, why bet that it will work ?
I think he said he doesn't want to bet it will work,
Mathieu, I don't understand where you got the "why bet that it will work" line.
Sorry, I mistakenly wrote a line that looked reverse of what I wanted to say. I mean you can't even assume that most people wouldn't figure out right-click Open. If there's any big incentive to do it, it takes one knowledgeable person to show a newbie a cool thing one can do by opening the gop, and the rest of the newbies to copy the trick from each other.
If you mean that the patch will work,
No, didn't mean that either.
any deterrent is better than no deterrent.
How can you assume that ?
Or I would have to follow each copy with a couple of handshells.
no idea what that sentence means, sorry. (what's a handshell ?)
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