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RE: Industry versus academia

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Subject: RE: Industry versus academia
From: David Farber <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:35:56 -0700
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At 01:52 PM 2/26/2003 -0500, Eli Collins wrote:
>just that as a community we could focus some
>energy on helping companies like Yahoo become more effective tool users.

No. We should focus some energy on putting Yahoo out of business.

If better languages and tools are /truly/ a /business/ advantage, then free market competition will eliminate the business that ignore them.

So far, this hasn't happened...and that, to me, means one thing: opportunity.

david

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