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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Only a few hackers get rich - so what.
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 00:00:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 00:00:00 1984
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont
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I listed those 6 or 7 people because they were mostly people I knew well.
There are many, many, many more examples.   The point is that hacks are
providing a large proportion of our innovation and starting up the
companies that will someday employ those less entrepreneurial.

If you deny freedom to explore, you turn the schools into programmer
factories - making people who will fit quite nicely into jobs with
large firms.   Go ahead if that is what you want.

Now I am not advocating people get things for free here, but I think
it's such a reasonable investment that schools should appoint a certain
amount of money to it as part of the educatinal process, and that alumni
should be encouraged to pay for this promotion.  When my company gets a little
better off, I intend to donate a little to the extracurricular computing
project underway at my alma mater.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473