On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Anna Su wrote:
>
> please do not issue sweeping and generalized statements. you are serving
> as a bad example to those who have thoughts about pursuing postgraduate
> studies. you cannot base your conclusion on one instance, or one
> experience with a lousy PhD or MS degree holder. do not deprive the MS and
> PhD people the respect that goes with their titles. those are not mere
> acronyms but fruit of four years at least of toil in grad school.
>
> if you do not want to go to grad sch, that is your life. don't drag
> others down with you.
>
I'm sorry for starting the thread that implied "to deprive the MS AND PhD
people the respect that goes with their titles". I merely want to state
that in the open source world I live in, "respect" is given to one not
because of one's title but because of one's work. Not merely by the sheer
technical genius that went behind it, but by more real world values like
public acceptance and usage to name a few. You can create a 200 volume
thesis on some obscure scientific fact that no one really cares about and
get your PhD, but in my book and most others, that amounts to squat,
zilch, zip. But create an application like napster that turns around an
industry by giving back to the consumer his power to do whatever
he wants with his purchase.. That to me is respectable no matter how
controversial it may be.
My point is that the playing field should be level. A person should be
judged by what his has done. both inside and outside the classroom. And
the policy that gives people of "higher education" greater preference [and
salaries] over equally brilliant yet non degree holders is to my mind
unfair and unjust.
I'm not knocking the educational institution. I'm knocking the prejudice
and fixation that the corporate world has on "Titles" both academic and
corporate.
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