On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 05:09, Tom Badran wrote: > On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 20:16, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The SDLC and corporate politics are independent. Academics should > > take corporate politics into consideration when coming up with these > > theories. > > Why? The SDLC (as defined in academia) is nothing to do with corporate > software development, it is about applying common engineering practises to > _any_ software development, commercial or otherwise. Academia is not supposed > to be about providing for coporations (although often it actually is
It's obvious that you live in the ivory tower. Theories that do not acknowledge reality are not good theories. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Whatever may be the moral ambiguities of the so-called demoratic nations and however serious may be their failure to conform perfectly to their democratic ideals, it is sheer moral perversity to equate the inconsistencies of a democratic civilization with the brutalities which modern tyrannical states practice." Reinhold Nieburhr, ca. 1940 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
