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Simon St.Laurent scripsit:
> I'm not sure that any of the criticisms there affect what Mike wrote
> about second-order benefits rather than short-term profits,
Didn't mean it to.
> though they
> certainly reflect Eric Raymond's hackers-as-humble-übermenchen
> perspective quite well.
Yup. Consider, in what branch of academia other than computer science
do we hear of professors offering *payment* for bona fide errors in their
books? Mostly they very much don't want to hear about 'em.
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