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From: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: good practices in science
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 10:37:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1h7xv4rpo.fsf@khs-macbook.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200406185121.GB3442@LionPure>

Hi Bengt,

> (I guess I get excited reading prose that shows attention
> to the distinction between abstractions and their representations.
> Sort of like reading quotes from Plato, and thinking, "Hey, wow,
> I've had some of those thoughts." :)

There are plenty of good ideas in that project, I am not claiming the
opposite. Unfortunately, that has never been a guarantee for success.

> I hope they are not just preparing themselves for spinning off
> and becoming rich as a monopolist takeover target ;-/

With people like Danny Hillis on board, they should be aware of that
trap!

> So what makes you hopeful about guix? :)

It's so technical that politics-minded people won't even look at it.

Cheers,
  Konrad.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-07  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-03 11:54 good practices in science Marco van Hulten
2020-04-03 13:00 ` Pjotr Prins
2020-04-03 13:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-03 14:28 ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-04-03 16:11   ` Cook, Malcolm
2020-04-03 16:20   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-05  9:55   ` Marco van Hulten
2020-04-05 13:50 ` Bijan
2020-04-06  8:18   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-06 10:01     ` Bijan
2020-04-06 15:09     ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-04-06 18:51       ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-07  8:37         ` Konrad Hinsen [this message]
2020-04-07 17:51           ` Bengt Richter
2020-04-07 22:00           ` bijan ghavami-kia
2020-04-08  7:30             ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-04-12 17:02             ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-04-06 16:34     ` Bengt Richter

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