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Re: [ox-en] role of science and universities



On 17 Oct 2003, Rich Walker wrote:


thomas be wrote:
I think Franz is right pointing at basic priciples of 
FS-development, such as peer review and open access. 

Free software has peer review, peer contribution and end-user review.

This is a significant difference from the processes that occur in
academia.

cheers, Rich. 



This is NOT a significant difference from the processes that SHOULD occur 
in academia.

In other words, (once again) free software may have been influenced by 
academia in its origins ( TeX, Knuth, and the academic maths community 
spring to mind) but now the important influences (even if they are more 
potential than actual) are in the opposite direction.


Hopefully ;-)
Graham

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