On Dec 19, 2013, at 02:36, Phillip Lord wrote: > I never understood how "flog books about technology" came into that > category.
The books are simply an artifact and technology is only one domain. Tim has spent decades promoting the interchange of well-chosen ideas. For example, although Christine Peterson came up with the term Open Source, Tim pulled together a group of key developers to discuss it, choose it as a new meme, define talking points, etc. He also ran a number of industry-wide conferences (OSCON), bringing together folks from different language communities. He made money doing this, but I don't hold that against him; it indicates that he was giving value. That said, each person has to decide what things are important. My own career has ranged from scientific programming and documentation to publication of free software collections. I'm a fanboi for both science and open source, so this fits my criteria. YMMV. -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin r...@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume San Bruno, CA, USA +1 650-873-7841 Software system design, development, and documentation -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
