brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (12/14/84)
I listed those 6 or 7 people because they were mostly people I knew well. There are many, many, many more examples. The point is that hacks are providing a large proportion of our innovation and starting up the companies that will someday employ those less entrepreneurial. If you deny freedom to explore, you turn the schools into programmer factories - making people who will fit quite nicely into jobs with large firms. Go ahead if that is what you want. Now I am not advocating people get things for free here, but I think it's such a reasonable investment that schools should appoint a certain amount of money to it as part of the educatinal process, and that alumni should be encouraged to pay for this promotion. When my company gets a little better off, I intend to donate a little to the extracurricular computing project underway at my alma mater. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473