One thing that comes up more and more often from people on this
newsgroup is the .... im not doing anything unlessi get paid for
it ! dont get me wrong i like money as much as anyone else and im not
this well off that i dont need any income but lets reflect and think
about it for a second....
If many of the great inventors would have shown this attitude than we
would be without a phone, light or electricity and the laws of basic
electronics would never been written!
Lets face it, many of the great inventors didnt start out because
they wanted to make money, they were tinkerers who liked to dabble
around and wanted to make things better, true in many cases wealth
and large companies came out of the original invention but it was not
the primary concern of the guy when he spend countless hours, days
and month sometimes years in the lab going trough trial after trial
facing the riddicule of friends family and sometimes even peers !
There are still many hams designing microwave circutry and publishing
detailed instructions on how to build their creations in magazines
for anyone to build without asking for any compensation.
Lets take for example Michael Kuhne DB6NT of germany who pioneered
many easy to build 10,24 and 47GHz designs, he did all the work in
his spare time, published many instructions and articles in DUBUS and
traveled from SHF convention to convention to promote his designs and
to answer questions from newcomers on how to build and improve those
designs, all on his own money without any commercial interest !
True sooner or later a company resulted out of it and today kuhne
electronic is good in business but it was not the primary idea of
michael when he started designing his stuff !
Sometimes we just need to step back and do things out of technical
interest without asking the $ question first, after all the good book
tells us that who seeks his rewards on this earth shall get their
rewards here and not in heaven !
