From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 19:31:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E740137BC0A for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 19:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA17298; Sat, 13 May 2000 19:31:00 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 19:31:00 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Message-Id: <200005140231.TAA17298@sharmas.dhs.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <20000514051809.N22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <391DDB3E.8DFFD8D0@mindspring.com> <20000514041848.K22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513181415.00890300@mail85.pair.com> <20000514051809.N22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In muc.lists.freebsd.chat, you wrote: > G. Adam Stanislav said on May 13, 2000 at 18:14:15: > > At 04:18 14-05-2000 +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >by borrowing ideas you don't decrease the number of ideas > > >in the world. > > > > Sure you do! If you expect your ideas to be stolen with no rewards to you, > > soon you will stop coming up with new ideas. Not because you lost your > > ability but because you have no motivation. > > In that case, research in universities should have come to a > standstill by now. It's not "stealing", it's "sharing". I find it ironic that American universities are doing great using the wealth that was created by "not sharing" some key marketable technologies with the rest of the world. If you look at most of the research these days, it's more and more funded by the industry and people think about jobs when they select their theses. A lot of people see research as a great tool to leap frog their colleagues in the company org chart. Again, arguing either extremes ((a) love of technology or (b) greed alone result in innovation) is hard. Everything can not be seen in black and white. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message