[ Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
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| Rodrigo writes -
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| > Moreover, the OpenSource/FreeSoftware rescued some moral values semi-
| > forgotten by corporations, governments and *perhaps*
| > even the scientific community.
More than one reply for my e-mail from the same person.
I'm flattered Arthur. ;o)
| Why can't we look at this more like an operating system?
| Corporations haven't forgotten much of anything.
Many times they forget that they are made of individuals, and
that should be their most valuable assets.
| They have consistently and always been in the "what's mine is mine"
| business - other corporations looking to make
| some of what is the other corporation's theirs. Competition ensues. It
| works and it doesn't work, together and at once.
I see your point. But I believe Corporations many times forget to
look for win-win situations (John Nash comes to mind), or to examine
the ecological/systemic [1] POV before defining their strategies.
That attitude would not be against capitalist principles.
| No beefs.
I believe that the open-source/free-software movements are
supported by the aforementioned entities (including Corporations).
I dare to called it a beef. Sometimes who eats it is not the same
person that pays for it, right ? But beef, nonetheless.
| The scientific community exists in corporations, in governments, and in
| academia.
Sorry about my imprecise choice of words =) Thank you for the correction.
Yet, that does not make any of my previous statement less true in my POV.
| There is evidence that what has changed is the influence of corporations on
| the academic scientific community. Its about people, institutions and
| money.
Agreed.
| It does seem to smell a bit.
Yep, but there is the yang and the yin side of it.
| If my readings are right, Galileo did not invent the telescope. In fact his
| real contribution was in commercializing it. Which made not only him but
| other people some serious $. Which is in large part what gave him the clout
| that allowed him to stand up to the religious authorities of the day as long
| as he did - his real sin having been overplaying his hand, overestimating
| the power and the reach of his connections, and the subtext of all this
| being interpretable as a struggle between religious and commercial
| interests, with the scientific dispute the context or pretext.
What was *really* "invented" ? We talk about the (re-)invention of the wheel
all the time. When was it invented, by whom ?
And I look at the moon and it screams: "PLAGIARISM!"
| But I don't care what Kirby says, Alan Kay did not invent the printing
| press. ;)
After all Kay has done, I can still respect him even without having done that.
=o)
cheers,
Senra
[1] By ecological/systemic perspectives I mean Fritjof Capra's arguments
in "Turning Point"
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