The lack of a well rounded education, as well as a sense of entitlement, is coming back to hurt some of those guys. Laugh at philosophy majors all you want, but at least they don't have a problem with stacking books at your local Barnes and Noble to make a living.
Why there hasn't been some kind of movement to place 486es and Pentiums, with a free OS like Linux, in our under-funded public schools, I'll never know... All children need are internet and word-processing capability, anyway.
Instead, we have Bill Gates donating a piddly few computers (in comparison to his income) to select schools around the nation, so as to promote his Microsoft software.
Craig Mundie is speaking to a business school during this speech. How many business school graduates are seriously going to be interested in "community, improved feedback, (or) augmented debugging?"
Artists, which many programmers who write programs under the GPL deservedly see themselves as, are always going to less interested in the monetary implications of their work...
However, the type of person who is typically attracted to business school (and this is a generalization I'm sure will get me in trouble, but I'll continue, anyway) often has no artistic ability, little concern for the improvement of society, and sees the world in a narcisstic fashion.
Microsoft is more a business than a creator of beautiful software. We all knew this already:)
Nothing is greater than scrutiny by the media. Let's face it... more people will actually try to understand Prof. Felten's research now that it has a certain aura of prohibition around it.
The RIAA is doing a great service to all of us by drawing attention to themselves constantly.
After all, they generally appreciate the free exchange of musical ideas for what they are: inspirations of genius... not moments to be exploited by large money-grabbing corporations.
As a graduate student in music, I might mention that a "true" musician doesn't compose music simply for profit or fame. There are just as many music professors and accomplished musicians who fully understand the intricacies of intellectual property and allow free exchange and performances of our music. We have our own academic journals, just like those in the sciences, and the approach of serious music study as a science is not far-fetched. Many musicians of the 20th Century have composed very interesting and thought-provoking music based on pure mathematical models.
I would urge Slashdot, and its readers, to differentiate between those who make music for money and those who create art. Certainly, one would differentiate between Jonas Salk, who create the polio vaccine for all of humanity's benefit, and the profit-minded attitude of most pharmaceutical companies today.
The sad fact is that people buy into image (see Britney Spears), certainly not the quality of music produced by most pop or rock artists of today. One cannot expect that the music industry will ever support a free exchange of recorded music... their music won't last in people's minds longer than a year or two. Anyone with a very basic knowledge of music theory could produce the trash that is churned out by Hollywood-minded record companies today. Likewise, little of the popular music of today requires anything resembling virtuostic musicality.
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For a second I thought this was April 1st instead of July 1st. A slackware release and a debian freeze on the same day? ;)
The lack of a well rounded education, as well as a sense of entitlement, is coming back to hurt some of those guys. Laugh at philosophy majors all you want, but at least they don't have a problem with stacking books at your local Barnes and Noble to make a living.
Why there hasn't been some kind of movement to place 486es and Pentiums, with a free OS like Linux, in our under-funded public schools, I'll never know... All children need are internet and word-processing capability, anyway. Instead, we have Bill Gates donating a piddly few computers (in comparison to his income) to select schools around the nation, so as to promote his Microsoft software.
Craig Mundie is speaking to a business school during this speech. How many business school graduates are seriously going to be interested in "community, improved feedback, (or) augmented debugging?"
:)
Artists, which many programmers who write programs under the GPL deservedly see themselves as, are always going to less interested in the monetary implications of their work...
However, the type of person who is typically attracted to business school (and this is a generalization I'm sure will get me in trouble, but I'll continue, anyway) often has no artistic ability, little concern for the improvement of society, and sees the world in a narcisstic fashion.
Microsoft is more a business than a creator of beautiful software. We all knew this already
And I'll turn in my university!! :)
Nothing is greater than scrutiny by the media. Let's face it... more people will actually try to understand Prof. Felten's research now that it has a certain aura of prohibition around it. The RIAA is doing a great service to all of us by drawing attention to themselves constantly.
After all, they generally appreciate the free exchange of musical ideas for what they are: inspirations of genius... not moments to be exploited by large money-grabbing corporations.
As a graduate student in music, I might mention that a "true" musician doesn't compose music simply for profit or fame. There are just as many music professors and accomplished musicians who fully understand the intricacies of intellectual property and allow free exchange and performances of our music. We have our own academic journals, just like those in the sciences, and the approach of serious music study as a science is not far-fetched. Many musicians of the 20th Century have composed very interesting and thought-provoking music based on pure mathematical models. I would urge Slashdot, and its readers, to differentiate between those who make music for money and those who create art. Certainly, one would differentiate between Jonas Salk, who create the polio vaccine for all of humanity's benefit, and the profit-minded attitude of most pharmaceutical companies today. The sad fact is that people buy into image (see Britney Spears), certainly not the quality of music produced by most pop or rock artists of today. One cannot expect that the music industry will ever support a free exchange of recorded music... their music won't last in people's minds longer than a year or two. Anyone with a very basic knowledge of music theory could produce the trash that is churned out by Hollywood-minded record companies today. Likewise, little of the popular music of today requires anything resembling virtuostic musicality.