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Projects have broken over this, with no real gain for implementing it. You would expect more rationality from MIT, of all places.
by robertch 9y ago
Projects have broken over this, with no real gain for implementing it. You would expect more rationality from MIT, of all places.
- bitexploder 9y agoI wonder if they felt like IPv4 addresses were a depreciating commodity and selling them in 5 years would not have brought in as much cash?
- curiousgal 9y ago>You would expect more rationality from MIT, of all places Tell that to Aaron Schwartz.
- KGIII 9y agoNo, no I would not expect more rationality. I am an alum. I am long since out of academia and have no idea what is behind this. However, if I had to guess, I bet there is some inner politics. Just 'cause it is MIT doesn't mean it is is free from human nature. And, truthfully, I've seen some petty things get all sorts of dramatic. We are humans. We're not rational beings, we're rationalizing beings. We like to pretend we are better but there is a valid reason that they say science progresses one death at a time.
- ocschwar 9y agoMIT's faculty and students are MIT faculty and MIT students/ MIT's admins are just admins. Same mentality you find in all the rest of academia, and they're actively hostile to everything that distinguishes MIT.