Wat CareWare betekent staat hieronder in het engels beschreven.
Als je zelf een intranet site (bijv. van je eigen afdeling) of prive op het internet een site wilt bouwen dan kun je met de HTML-editor Arachnophilia een heel eind komen. De OR intranet site is hier een voorbeeld van. Het programma is CareWare (dus gratis), je kunt het downloaden (1,5 MB) van www.arachnoid.com of bij mij een kopie opvragen, ik stuur je dan het zip bestand op per e-mail.
Een cursus volgen kan ook, een van de velen is te vinden op: WWW.MEDIAPORT.ORG , de cursus kan hier ook worden gedownload (0,2 MB) of in een verloren kwartiertje hier op de OR intranet site.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Hans Dekker
Afdeling FZ.
I never saw a wild thing
Sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead
From a bough
Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
-- D. H. Lawrence
Even though this page has a big, impressive title, it is about a simple idea
which I hope I can convey in a few words.
Here are the main points:
· Economic principles lie behind many more human activities than most of us
realize. We are almost constantly exchanging something for something else.
· Many economic transactions don't involve money. In traditional societies, and
sometimes even this one, people trade using favors, influence, even pure ideas,
instead of money.
· Sometimes money is not the best way to convey value. And sometimes money is
so completely inappropriate that it destroys the transaction. CareWare is one
of those transactions.
· CareWare doesn't involve money, but it is a transaction nevertheless.
Something is delivered, something is received. Adam Smith's invisible economic
hand moves through the CareWare economy just like everywhere else. I can't ask
for something more than I am giving, but I can ask for an appropriate exchange.
In CareWare, the "buyer" gets something of value in exchange for something the
"seller" wants. And what does the seller want? The general answer is "Anything
except money," but I prefer the really remarkable transactions, which you
recognize instinctively when you see them.
Here is an example -- here is a hypothetical transaction between myself and
you. I have a program called "Arachnophilia" which is a rather nice Web page
editor and workshop, but I don't want your money in exchange, I want something
else. So I say "This is what I am offering, and here is what I want in return."
Simple, right? I have been doing this for a little while now, and the responses
have been very interesting. Many people think I have religious beliefs -- I
don't, at least not religious beliefs recognizable by a person of normal
intellectual gifts. Others try to push the transaction in a more traditional
direction for one reason or another -- I recently received this message:
Careware, eh? A small price to pay for such a
This response could arise from any number of causes, and bartering about the
medium as well as the size of the payment is a normal part of economic
transactions, so maybe I am picking on this particular correspondent a little.
But the funny part is CareWare is by no means a small price to pay.
For example, here is a payment I will accept for a copy of Arachnophilia --
To own Arachnophilia, I ask that you stop whining about how hard your life is,
at least for a while. When Americans whine, nearly everybody else in the world
laughs. We have so much, and yet we manage to:
· Overlook great examples of beauty around us,
Every time we whine about how tough we have it, apart from the fact that we
look ridiculous, we make it harder for people around us to appreciate how much
we have. We encourage people to overlook the things we do have, the gifts of
man and nature. We provide a context to dismiss everything as not good enough,
to be miserable in the midst of plenty.
Don't get the wrong impression -- many things are unjust, things that should be
struggled against until they are made right. My complaint is with people who
can't find even one thing to take joy in, to appreciate. These people not only
make themselves miserable, but they infect others with the attitude that the
world should right itself, by itself, before they will take simple pleasure in
anything.
So here is my deal: stop whining for an hour, a day, a week, your choice, and
you will have earned your copy of Arachnophilia. Say encouraging words to young
people, make them feel welcome on the planet Earth (many do not). Show by
example that we don't need all we have in order to be happy and productive.
Paul Lutus, Port Hadlock, WA
Arachnophilia may be freely distributed and copied, so long as no fee is
charged. Arachnophilia may not be made part of a product for which a fee is
charged.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Arachnophilia is not in the public domain and is
© Copyright 1996-1998, Paul Lutus, who retains all present and future rights in
and to Arachnophilia.
The determination of fitness of Arachnophilia for any particular purpose shall
be solely with the recipient, and Paul Lutus shall not be responsible for any
damages, direct, indirect, or consequential, that may arise from use of
Arachnophilia.
Arachnophilia may be freely distributed and copied, so long as no fee is
charged. Arachnophilia may not be made part of a product for which a fee is
charged.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Arachnophilia is not in the public domain and is
© Copyright 1996-1998, Paul Lutus, who retains all present and future rights in
and to Arachnophilia.
The determination of fitness of Arachnophilia for any particular purpose shall
be solely with the recipient, and Paul Lutus shall not be responsible for any
damages, direct, indirect, or consequential, that may arise from use of
Arachnophilia.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Arachnophilia is not in the public domain and is
© Copyright 1996-1998, Paul Lutus, who retains all present and future rights in
and to Arachnophilia.
The determination of fitness of Arachnophilia for any particular purpose shall
be solely with the recipient, and Paul Lutus shall not be responsible for any
damages, direct, indirect, or consequential, that may arise from use of
Arachnophilia.
great software package. My pen quivers over my
checkbook in case you change your mind.
· Miss our most important opportunities,
· Manage to make ourselves miserable by expecting something even better to come
along.
Arachnophilia may be freely distributed and copied, so long as no fee is
charged. Arachnophilia may not be made part of a product for which a fee is
charged.