Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:34:18 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, opentrax@email.com, howardjp@well.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Message-ID: <20010118153417.B17528@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20010118092624.B34934@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:26:24AM %2B0000 References: <200101172339.PAA05269@spammie.svbug.com> <200101180626.XAA29452@usr08.primenet.com> <20010118092624.B34934@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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Nik Clayton said on Jan 18, 2001 at 09:26:24: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 06:26:15AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Actually, I view the whole thing as a useful applied sociology > > experiment, from which much useful information derived. If I > > had the academic credentials as a social scientist to be seriously > > published in the field, or wasn't busy with other things to the > > point of being unable to waste time acquiring them, I'd write > > several papers on the topic. > > That didn't prevent ESR from trying. . . Besides, physicists have been known to publish papers in serious sociology journals, so why not programmers? See http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/#papers (for those who haven't heard of this: it's worth the visit) R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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