On 2/17/2010 3:50 PM, Al Haines (shaw) wrote:
Your motivation? What do I care? Be altruistic, and do a book.
But at the end of the day, if BB produces a book and gives it to PG (after, of course, posting a copy to the Internet Archive before it is degraded by the whitewashers) you have a book. But if he participates in Mr. Frank's "roundless" experiment, and you both encourage others to do so, at the end of the day you still have your book, probably faster than you would have gotten it otherwise (because I know quantity is important to PG), and perhaps even less error-prone than if a single individual had produced it (even though quality really isn't that important to PG), and BB and Mr. Frank have valuable data that perhaps can be used to develop a more efficient production system. Either way, you still get your book, but in the latter scenario valuable data is produced as well. Be altruistic, Mr. Haines, and support the experiment.