> Anything Non-conformist: The parents, > teachers, school administration, etc. are mostly > of the Baby Boomer era. They were non-conformists.
I don't think so. More likely the non-conformist boomers would have gone on to better things. Note that none of the encouragement messages are telling geeks to persevere, so that they can one day become teachers and principals.
No, they (the US) just like to air out their hysteria and paranoia in the press. E.g. i suspect the german way to handle this would be to quietly keep notes on who to blame the next time they need someone to jump on.
Imagine someone saying, "if you don't like the Republican government, don't join, vote or speak for the opposition; join the Republicans and improve them". (For "Republican", substitute your favourite ex-ruling party that seemed hard to beat for a while.)
In a way similar to the establishment of "green" parties, open source became a movement because enough people want it, not merely as a better product but a better way of "doing business". That's the generational aspect the writer notices but fails to understand (and therefore resorts to mocking).
That comment was, of course, once made towards green parties. Fortunately enough people didn't listen.
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> Anything Non-conformist: The parents,
> teachers, school administration, etc. are mostly
> of the Baby Boomer era. They were non-conformists.
I don't think so. More likely the non-conformist boomers would have gone on to better things. Note that none of the encouragement messages are telling geeks to persevere, so that they can one day become teachers and principals.
No, they (the US) just like to air out their
hysteria and paranoia in the press. E.g. i
suspect the german way to handle this would be
to quietly keep notes on who to blame the next
time they need someone to jump on.
Imagine someone saying, "if you don't like the Republican government, don't join, vote or speak for the opposition; join the Republicans and improve them". (For "Republican", substitute your favourite ex-ruling party that seemed hard to beat for a while.)
In a way similar to the establishment of "green" parties, open source became a movement because enough people want it, not merely as a better product but a better way of "doing business". That's the generational aspect the writer notices but fails to understand (and therefore resorts to mocking).
That comment was, of course, once made towards green parties. Fortunately enough people didn't listen.