Ph.D. thesis on debian flamewars
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey
Thu Sep 22 22:34:20 PDT 2005
Collins Richey wrote:
> On 9/21/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:00:49PM -0700, Net Llama! took 7 lines to write:
>>
>>>You know that you're messed up when someone writes their thesis about you:
>>>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=805287
>>
>>That's too funny. I would hardly characterize the Debian flamewars
>>as "conflict-free enculturation." However, I quite concur with their
>>nature as "legal pedagogy" and especially, "crisis."
>>;-)
>>
>>Great link, Lonnie.
>
>
> Holy S---, Batman! OMG, if the article is as full of meaningless
> academic jargon and BS as the Abstract, I'll pass. OTH, Debianites may
> eat this stuff up.
I'm impressed that someone managed to get a PhD this way. Maybe Richard
Stallman could turn his life story into a dissertation.
--
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"
More information about the Linux-users
mailing list