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Those Who Can...Those Who Can...Posted Oct 22, 2004 15:29 UTC (Fri) by gowen (guest, #23914)In reply to: Those Who Can... by Prototerm Parent article: Why open source is unsustainable (Financial Times)
In my experience, the vast majority of the professors in colleges and universities are so insulated from reality ... the clueless masses that control the academic ivory towersReally? Your experience covers the vast majority of professors? In a broad cross section of departments, universities and countries? Sure. Whatever. Somehow, I think not. Anyway... There are plenty of techie people willing to spread FUD about things they don't agree with. Look at various Sun techie blogs or MS press releases of the last few weeks if you don't believe me. Would you appreciate it if someone generalised from these self-promoting outliers to make crass and ill-informed comments about your profession. Idiotic generalisations don't help anybody, and just make you look some unappealing combination of stupid or bitter.
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Those Who Can... Posted Oct 22, 2004 23:07 UTC (Fri) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link] I think what Prototerm said in his first paragraph is true, if two phrases are changed:
"the vast majority of <people> are so insulated from reality that they haven't the faintest idea what living on the Planet Earth is <truly> like."
Warning: Off-topic political injection: As an example, look at how many people support president Bush.
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