“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Theodore Roosevelt’s Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Posted on 25 November 2009
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What I would like to see is a situation where the Mono project(s) by facts – in terms of pure code / concept AND potential (political) risk – does the job properly when it comes to selling the concept.
Everybody knows that those developing Mono are convinced and that Novell is investing heavily.
History is densly populated with great products – many never heard of – because the caretakers were unable to communicate the (right) message.
Mono may very well be superb. That doesn’t matter unless you are able to get your message through. What you need is to put Mono in a position where it’s trusted. Not because you say so, but because it’s trustworthy.
BoycottNovell, Stallman, GPL, FSF, F/OSS+++ and monosceptics: not the real issue, and quoting Theodore Roosevelt is not the answer.
A genius only becomes a genius when he is smart enough to sell his ideas and make profit by mindshare.
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Interesting comment. Where did the connection between this blog post and Mono come from?
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Good question, I was wondering the same thing. Some people need to chill out.
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I’m quite relaxed thank you
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Seems to me like the connection was hidden between lines.
I resisted quoting Churchill
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Great quote, it really helps put all these critics / trolls in perspective. Seems to me there is an order of magnitude more trollish comments than lines of code or people actually doing anything technology related.
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Seems like I’m not the only one reading between lines then
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. Inspirational. Thanks for the quote Nat.
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