<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-size: 16px; ">Hi Eliot,</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">some thoughts for you...</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. <br><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">-- Winston Churchill</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. <br><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">-- again Winston Churchill <br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">> Can we please get back to writing code, collaborating and making progress with Pharo and Squeak</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">Sure you can, you are everyone's darling.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">So 4 years of trying my damnedest to do exactly as you recommend has simply helped my understanding of Jesus' words. We all know the first part of the sentence, however the second has suddenly gained a new ring of truth.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><div>Matthew 7:6 “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces."</div></div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">When you say, ah but that is life in software, its not an idea world, get over it, live with it, the end justifies the means, you side with the pigs. </div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">To the board:</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="indquote_link">~ Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. - Satre</span></div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">regards</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">victim number 2</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 16px; ">Keith</div><div style="font-size: 16px; "><br></div></body></html>