[Edu-sig] RE: "Croquet Project" and Python ?

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:urnerk at qwest.net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 11:47 AM
> To: 'Arthur'; 'J Max'; edu-sig at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] RE: "Croquet Project" and Python ?
> 
> > Is he a hero again for then undertaking the Croguet effort, which seeks
> to
> > be the new internet, and failing.
> >
> 
> I dunno, maybe.  A lot of these things will become clear 50 years from
> now,
> looking back.
> 
> I feel no real urgency to define who are the good guys and bad guys in
> this
> drama.

I don't tend toward an activist stance on many issues, really. Mostly
because I don't reach conclusions very easily - trying to have due respect
for complexity. And additionally because I think folks have the right to
pursue (within reasonable bounds) their self-interest, undisturbed by a lot
of moralizing. 

And were Kay pursuing HPs dominance in convergent media, and pulling down
seven figures a year for it - swell for him and HP.

But in the realm in which we are dealing - education - things are a bit
different.  It is a profession, not a business. And though it has not
developed a formal code of conduct - as for example the legal profession,
there is, as far as I am concerned, an implicit code of conduct.  I feel Kay
has breached that implicit code.

The end.

Art