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- From: halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin)
- Subject: Re: New SPARC Classic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.022823.12407@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- References: <1992Nov12.183706.4470@utstat.uucp> <1992Nov13.024105.27321@RedBrick.COM> <1992Nov15.085235.628@utstat.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:28:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.085235.628@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
- ...
- >Knowledge should be as transferable as possible throughout society. Of
- >course this presumes that one has the knowledge. I simply do not feel that
- >commercial operations, especially those adapting knowledge derived by
- >noncommercial researchers, should make any profit at all selling to
- >universities. I knew a great guitar teacher. He produced a wonderful
- >concert class guitarist. One day the guitarist returned to give a major
- >concert in the teacher's home town. The teacher could not afford a decent
- >ticket. I have no use for the marketing sharks which permeate society
- >selling variations on themes they learnt from those they now attempt to
- >make money off of.
-
- Whats this "noncommercial researchers" stuff? Universities retain rights
- of the work of their employees just as commercial companies do. Universities
- keep the profits from the patents they license, just as commercial companies
- do. Unlike commercial companies, universities are outright given money to
- do this in the form of grants (ie its funded involuntarily by those of us
- who pay taxes), and they dont even have to pay a living wage to those doing
- the real work (ie graduate students.) And teaching? Its often viewed as
- a necessary evil.
-
- >I wonder what type of society would produce such leaches on those who are
- >searching for the truth. You'd probably support a dealer selling a priest
- >a ND system in order to produce a newsletter.
-
- The reality of academia is neither pure nor virtuous. Perhaps the example
- given should have been based on a television evangelist instead of a priest.
-
- >Philip McDunnough
- >philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-
- -Steve
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