User: donnejohn

MIT situation adn poor financial scene

On: MIT Students Get an Education in Software Development

Check out general MIT news site conerning dire financial straits they are in: *Closing school for x-mas break to save money, *will layoff 250 people early next year, *hiring and salary increase freezes *they have lost $1 billion dollars in their endowment the last 2-3 years..... *anyone note F2003 they combined LCS and AI labs? Cost savings are on their mind for everything unfortunately....off-the-shelf software makes sense...companies hang around to maintain and students leave(ie graduate)

Re:MIT "free" online software..yeah right..

On: More on MIT OpenCourseWare

What is MIT selling...degrees right? .You can't get one if you do not pony-up the money..read all the crap you want online you do not get a degree

Rolling Stones & popular music---are a busine

On: The Rolling Stones' Business Model

Duhhh.....Popular music is fundamentally a business like any other economic activity. You deliver the value,product or service..if you like it...you pay for it. If no one buys it does not continue to get created/produced...Pretty basic..Though it took dot.com owners 4 years and billions of wasted dollars to figure that out(ie, software solutions looking for problems to solve)

free science research..????

On: Peer-Reviewed Research Over The Web

Why is he asking for $20 million dollars for free research....Distribution may be free on the web but not the creation of the information