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Planning call; admin, into Cambridge to collect Simon L;
into the office, contract signing thanks to Iris & Hannah;
briefing, laptop setup thanks to Doug. Call with marketers.
Back to Newmarket, out for dinner with Simon N, caught up
with J. bed.
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Appalled to see Princeton E-mailing a list of a
million organizations to burn their resource in order to publish
a paper. What possible cost/benefit analysis was done there - lets
assume (conservatively) it takes an hour to respond to (or discard)
their request in each entity - that's a million person-hours: five
hundred person years, ~10's of millions of dollars burned: to burnish
someone's academic credentials. And I thought that the security circus
had problematically assymetric costs; but this takes it to a whole
new level - wow. Horrifying; and given ten seconds of thought - a
totally predictable stain on the reputation of a great institution.
I imagine Ross Teixeira and Jonathan Mayer have inadventently
created several tens of person years of work for themselves in
responding individually to each organization affected; quite apart
from any disgruntled others piling load on the university left and
right.
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license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
