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hi On 6/27/12, Jack Coats <jack at coats.org> wrote: > What I would like to see is the Maker: Culture extend itself into the > corporate culture. this will never happen. these groups have very different goals. think about what happened [and continues to happen] to the network as it gets 'monetized' ... [hint: corporations control or eliminate makers] makers want to build and fix things for many reasons [helping themselves or others, fame, boredom, ...]; corporations want to maximize shareholder value. they are orthogonal, and sadly, corporations have far more resources available to them than makers. but makers have imagination ... -- \js [http://or8.net/~johns/] : "complete obscure contrariness"
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