On 2009-03-09, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> If it was posted for free, with no purpose, it would just be a collection of
> recipes that anyone can put together.

That's all it was. The fact ppl paid for it was incidental. Do you think
$7.5K was spit in the overall total? Do you need a noble cause to
contribute a recipe? Do you need a reason to put forth some community
effort? I don't.



> The last time, we published a book
> with a purpose. The purpose was to raise money to help people. We had a lot
> of participants. We knew it was a good cause so we sent recipes, and many
> did a lot of extra work in editing, mailing etc.

Fine. I have no problem with that. I also don't need a good cause to
merely contribute to a community effort. Just contributing to a group
effort is enough for me. There are thousands of group efforts that are
contributed to the common good. Linux, mirc, etc. No money expected. I
don't need a monetary reward to contribute.

> If you want to just post a bunch of recipes, go to it.

I just may. What? I can't try and rally others to contribute likewise? I gotta
shill for money to satisfy your mercinary sensibilities? I don't think so.

> The internet is loaded with hundreds of thousands of free recipes. Very few
> collections helped others though. RFC did.

Fine. If you need a dollar amount to make a contribution worthwhile, so be
it. I don't.

nb