Comments on: “doing it” versus “doing it right” http://www.daverea.com/2006/09/doing-it-versus-doing-it-right/ Stuff that I care about, but that you're free to disregard Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:22:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dave http://www.daverea.com/2006/09/doing-it-versus-doing-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-415 dave Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:14:02 +0000 http://www.daverea.com/?p=227#comment-415 Wow - a visit from the Gumstix CTO himself! Welcome to my little corner of the Internet, Craig... You make an excellent point, because ultimately the "community" that Gumstix serves is defined by your customer base - and that's a worldwide community, not a local one like an industrial-age company might serve. So while I said "I don't necessarily agree 100%", I think the number is really right around 99.9%, and that .1% holdout will always be there as a nostalgic holdout from having watched <em>It's a Wonderful Life</em> one too many times... :) Wow – a visit from the Gumstix CTO himself! Welcome to my little corner of the Internet, Craig…

You make an excellent point, because ultimately the “community” that Gumstix serves is defined by your customer base – and that’s a worldwide community, not a local one like an industrial-age company might serve. So while I said “I don’t necessarily agree 100%”, I think the number is really right around 99.9%, and that .1% holdout will always be there as a nostalgic holdout from having watched It’s a Wonderful Life one too many times… :)

]]> By: Craig Hughes http://www.daverea.com/2006/09/doing-it-versus-doing-it-right/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Craig Hughes Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:58:48 +0000 http://www.daverea.com/?p=227#comment-414 While I agree that it's nice for a company to "give back" with jobs, doing so inefficiently (that is, hiring people who don't need to be hired) helps nobody. Focusing on not wasting resources means instead that we can "give back" by reducing our product prices, which is actually giving precisely to those people who are buying our product! While I agree that it’s nice for a company to “give back” with jobs, doing so inefficiently (that is, hiring people who don’t need to be hired) helps nobody. Focusing on not wasting resources means instead that we can “give back” by reducing our product prices, which is actually giving precisely to those people who are buying our product!

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