Matthew's Weblog

Because the idea of neo-patronage here is being applied to writing (and kind of associated with all arts) it sounds new… but when I actually sat down to write about how cool I thought it was and how it was related to the Baen Free Library and other many-words kinds of things, I realized — this is really the basis of Open Source software and donations for people’s work and all that is new here is the name.

That said, I really like calling it ‘Neo-Patronage’…

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from a howto :

           #!/bin/bash           OPTIONS="Hello Quit"           select opt in $OPTIONS; do               if [ "$opt" = "Quit" ]; then                echo done                exit               elif [ "$opt" = "Hello" ]; then                echo Hello World               else                clear                echo bad option               fi           done          

A very clear writeup from IBM on this pending issue…

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May they please be telling the truth…

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