[Edu-sig] Postmortem of my OSCON talk

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:urnerk at qwest.net]
> > Where might a self-proclaimed intelligent person go to discuss with
> other
> > such persons  1 through 7, without the diversion of 8?
> >
> 
> I'd be open to your listing range(7), i.e. [0,1,2,3,4,5,6].

First let me address number 8, positively.  Because I am positive that open
source is a significant and important + mark.

Barry Warsaw has a blog with one entry:

Learning by Breaking

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=5477

Open source software is eminently breakable - and therefore eminently
suitable for learning.

But the prospect of making this an effective selling point  - no matter how
saliently true it might be under a particular circumstance - is so daunting
as to seem foolhardy.

And I keep coming of against that - what seems true seems foolhardy to
pursue.  

So I tend to fall back on an instinct to fight to call a halt to the process
in its entirety.

Art