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> Of course this should prevail under the flag of
> acknowledgement of authorship, to give credit where it is due.
> I couldn't agree with you more. At the university level, when
you take ideas from others, you acknowledge that. The biggest
task when doing research is actually the reading part. For those
of you who haven't done graduate studies, and who have been in a
company environment for much too long, 60 % of your research
goes into reading what other people have done and learning from
them. The advancement of humanity has been hampered by people
keeping new technologies secret. Others would still be trying to
figure out what they have done. A most striking event is the
Intelligence releasing all the detailed maps of the ocean bottom
to the scientific community. We will surely see some tremendous
good results due to that.
> But isn't imitation flattery, in any event?:)
I would like to stress on the point that people should build on
an acquired basis and try to do more.
Just a quick note to Sandy Ressler:
I understand about your concerns with this discussion but if we
can't resolve that issue fast, VRML would go in either way
without any control. This is IMHO a crucial design and
development issue.
As always: for any flames, please post them directly to me and
not to the mailing list.
Richard Rabbat
Center for Educational Computing Initiatives
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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