Most college textbook revisions are purely cosmetic in any case. publishers want to dupe professors into pushing the new copies rather than the used, which don't get the publisher anything.
Yeah, the biases of slashdot editors don't count for much in terms of reliable data.
That said, you could draw some strong parallels, and then some strong contradictions, between the open source movement and the stereotypical ideas of lowercase-"L" libertarians.
It helps to draw up your conclusion first, then select evidence and devise the arguments necessary to reach that goal.
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Most college textbook revisions are purely cosmetic in any case. publishers want to dupe professors into pushing the new copies rather than the used, which don't get the publisher anything.
Yeah, the biases of slashdot editors don't count for much in terms of reliable data. That said, you could draw some strong parallels, and then some strong contradictions, between the open source movement and the stereotypical ideas of lowercase-"L" libertarians. It helps to draw up your conclusion first, then select evidence and devise the arguments necessary to reach that goal.
No, no. The context is more analogous to the "drinkability" of Budweiser, as alleged in the little soliloquy on cans sold in the U.S.