Mike,
The question really isn't whether the proposed model is more appealing than
the existing model. The questions are: whether the proposed model can work
as well or better in any number of diverse circumstances; and whether the
model can be implemented in those circumstances with anything
On Thu, 27 May 1999, Tom Walker wrote:
Michael Gurstein wrote:
I think this is where the discussion needs to begin: 1. can networks be
co-ordinated without being SUB-ordinated?
Comms networks certainly can, that is the definition/magic of the
Internet!
2. could such co-ordinated networks
Hi Tom,
Actually what I thought I was proposing was "more spirited schools".
Also centralized planning works best when you happen to be at the centre
(cf. Mr. Gates and Mr. Broz), for the rest of us, at the ends of pipelines
of diminishing dimensions, co-ordinated networks are much preferred
Michael Gurstein wrote:
Also centralized planning works best when you happen to be at the centre
(cf. Mr. Gates and Mr. Broz), for the rest of us, at the ends of pipelines
of diminishing dimensions, co-ordinated networks are much preferred (and
in the end probably deliver the code (and the
Are you saying what we need is more "school spirit"? It seems to me that the
cathedral/bazaar dichotomy simply gives a kitsch veneer to the
well-entrenched neo-liberal critique of centralized planning. I happen to
appreciate parts of that critique, but only the negative parts.
I gaze at your
