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From: thomson@utah-cs.UUCP (Rich Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries)
Message-ID: <5563@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 88 02:55:25 GMT
References: <4476@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2132@sugar.UUCP> <605@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> <2141@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: thomson@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Rich Thomson)
Organization: Oasis Technologies
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In article <2141@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
:In article ... vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
:> I wonder what the proportion of academic nodes is in USENET.
:
:Universities are also Big Nasty Corporations, even the ones financed by
:the Top Carnivore of Organised Crime (the government). They also have to
:meet their bills and to do that they have to deliver a product: graduated
:students.

Actually, the product of a university is research, not graduated students.
Graduated students just provide a convenient slave force for getting the
work done :-).

The business of Universities is research, not education.
-- 
Rich Thomson, Oasis Technologies, 3190 MEB, U of U, Salt Lake City, Utah  84112
(801) 355-5146  thomson@cs.utah.edu  {bellcore,ut-sally}!utah-cs!thomson
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