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).
(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.
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