what I am prepared to engage in and what I am not prepared to engage in with my energy--the archives

EVERETT813 at aol.com EVERETT813 at aol.com
Mon Mar 29 09:24:16 PST 2004


(Note: This is a second try to get this to show up, it wasn't on my screen 
this morning.)

Right On!  Michael. 

Exclusion hurts.  Inclusion heals.  Somewhere, in my dim, distant memory I 
remember a poem about somebody drawing a circle to keep others out but that 
somebody else "had the wit to win.  We drew a circle that took him in."  Or, 
something like that. 

The reason Apple Computer is less than 5% of the market is a failed strategy 
of exclusiveness while Bill Gates created freedom for many others to invent 
new programs for DOS and then Windows, both inferior systems to Apple, but 
nonetheless, now dominant the world over.  Let's all draw a sharp lesson from these 
two companies.

The reason the Tuskeegee Airmen lost ZERO B-17 bombers to enemy fighters was 
their superior strategy.  They knew what their mission was: bring all the 
bombers back safely (couldn't do anything about the losses to anti-aircraft 
fire).  Hence, when an enemy fighter attacked, they simply drove them off and then 
returned to the bomber formation.  Other fighter-escort squadrons had a 
strategy of pursuing enemy fighters until they achieved a "kill".  That left the 
bombers unprotected, and those squadrons lost bombers to enemy fighters, with 11 
men going down with each bomber.  Very bad ratio, to say the least.

How does this relate?  We have to keep our strategy straight and keep OS open 
to the world, in an active way, because the world needs it.  And, the world 
needs the understandings of everyone on this list as they develop their deep 
intuition about "Opening Space", a sacred act, indeed.  So, keep opening space, 
including any and all archieves.  My two cents.

Paul Everett

(PS: This is a second try to get this to show up, it wasn't on my screen this 
morning.)

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