At 25/06/98 17:16:37, [log in to unmask] wrote:
# Alaric mewled:
# >Surely the point of contributing to a collaborative poem is to enable
the
# >contributions of others? Helping other workers to build something you
# >couldn't/wouldn't build on your own? Indeed, exactly to keep it going?
Oh.
# >No. Of course. Sorry, I was in the wrong mind. I was interpreting
# >collaborative as 'working together', but you mean collaborative in the
# >sense of 'competitive'. Beating the opposition. Market forces.
# >Manufacturers working together competitively in the same industry.
#
# No, you were right the first time. What kind of sick bastard would
# want to "enable the contributions of others"? I like the idea of
# "helping other workers to build something you wouldn`t build on your
# own," that seems to me to be the kind of perverse and self-defeating
# procedure we should all be embarking on a lot more.
Huckleberry Finn a "sick bastard"? Gracious. Just give me a plainboard
fence and a tin of paint. I just want to help others.
Roger
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