Re: <nettime> On Empire

["Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>]

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: What significant piece of IP has a 'hacker class' developed?
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: Semiconductors, telephony, Internet, UNIX ... all come from large scale
: corporate or government structures.

"UNIX" != "BSD", to be sure, but some would say that is a good thing.
Particularly now that soon the vast number of proprietary seats will be
derived from "BSD".  Others (the stinking innumerable mongol hordes,
thundering over the plain, the stench enveloping the doomed victims before
the chimeras crystallize) are "LINUX".  (apologies to NS)  
LINUX campfires will illuminate our horizons for many years.

Said BSD sources were injected verily into the Most Holy Source Code 
wielded by Master Microsoft who subjugates thee, and me.  The Grand
Innovator, no less.

Within "Software" there are a hundred examples that refute and condemn
your claim as specious, even banal.

In the meatware world, few such exist.  Dean Kamen...

Telco class fault tolerance is within reach of the "hacker class" now too.  
Only the hardware persists.  As the U.S. military has learned, stovepiped
pre-eminence is not necessarily a good thing, or even relevant.

Philo failed.  In the future more shall succeed, invevitably, as 
in software.

Russell


: Tom Gray
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: "McKenzie Wark" <mckenziewark@hotmail.com>@bbs.thing.net on 05/29/2002
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