From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!hamilton
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.348
Posted: Fri Aug  6 07:30:16 1982
Received: Sun Aug  8 09:22:10 1982

#R:we13:-27600:uicsovax:3700013:000:1059
uicsovax!hamilton    Jun 30 12:19:00 1982

***** uicsovax:net.micro / kline /  6:30 pm  Jun 29, 1982
	The thing that burns me is those of us in the academic computer
world who look upon computers as being `our' property. It's a pretty
snobbish attitude to try to exclude the rest of the world from computers ...
... the infamous jargon and other attempts by computerists to keep the field
to themselves ....
----
   you make it sound like a concerted conspiracy to keep computers secret;
this is absurd and contrary to the evidence.
   it's not the academic's job to put a computer in every garage, or even to
educate the general public (not that it is inappropriate for one to try to do
so, but it is not a shameful ommision to NOT do so).
   i don't know about you, but my job is to develop and "sell" (in a political
sense) software for people who are not CS-oriented.  if anything, i might be
accused of trying to push computers on people who don't need or want them, in
spite of all my attempts to make computers desirable.
	wayne hamilton ({decvax,ucbvax,ihnss}!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsovax!hamilton)