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Re: Universal Applications, Universal Data

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• Subject: Re: Universal Applications, Universal Data
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:23:54 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200211201829.NAA19668@m...>

Mike Champion wrote:
>(The values of academia and open source are about the same -- doing the 
>Right Thing for recognition and the second-order financial benefits
>that guruhood bestows rather than for short-term profit).

jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes:
>But see 
>http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s11.html
>for some of the fundamental differences between hackerdom and 
>ac(k)ademia.

I'm not sure that any of the criticisms there affect what Mike wrote
about second-order benefits rather than short-term profits, though they
certainly reflect Eric Raymond's hackers-as-humble-übermenchen
perspective quite well.

-- 
Simon St.Laurent
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Errors, errors, all fall down!
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