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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Octave Help Mode?
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:52:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4804F970.8010201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763ujc6h7.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu>

David Hansen wrote:
> And by the way, I think it's very questionable if it still counts as
> "science" if you use proprietary software, if you don't have at least
> full access to the source code.


It is good thinking, but I am sorry to say that too much of science 
today is "proprietary" in one sense or another. If you interested then 
there is a lot to study and think about. Some of my favorite questions are:

- Who decide what research to do? Why? Consequences?
- Who decide what framework/paradigm to use? Why? Consequences?
- Who decide what we can read without paying? Why? Consequences?
- Who decide who can do research? Why? Consequences?

Perhaps read Pierre Bourdieu, Michael Focault. There is a lot more than 
positivistic thinking to look into.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-14 23:10 Octave Help Mode? Christian Herenz
2008-04-15  7:20 ` David Hansen
2008-04-15 15:55   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-15 18:21     ` David Hansen
     [not found] ` <mailman.10364.1208244210.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-15  8:42   ` Christian Herenz
2008-04-15 10:00     ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-15 13:04     ` David Hansen
     [not found]     ` <mailman.10371.1208264912.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-15 14:32       ` Christian Herenz
2008-04-15 15:28         ` David Hansen
     [not found]         ` <mailman.10374.1208273905.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-15 16:35           ` Christian Herenz
2008-04-15 16:41             ` Richard G Riley
2008-04-15 18:34               ` David Hansen
2008-04-15 18:52                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-04-16 12:56                   ` David Hansen
2008-04-15 18:37               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]               ` <mailman.10394.1208284679.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-15 21:40                 ` Christian Herenz

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