The suggestion that Joy Rankin has a rose colored view of academics is amusing, since I bought her book after reading her article on how Michigan State sucked s

The suggestion that Joy Rankin has a rose colored view of academics is amusing, since I bought her book after reading her article on how Michigan State sucked so bad she quit, or as she put it, fired the university: https://medium.com/@drjoy/why-im-firing-michigan-state-sexual-harassment-online-harassment-and-utter-institutional-6663a6bde68e https://medium.com/@drjoy/why-im-firing-michigan-state-sexua... Of course you may remember Michigan State from the US gymnast doctor Larry Nassar who molested a bunch of girls there even after concerns were raised about him, leading to the resignation of the University's President (https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/us/michigan-state-president-resigns/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/us/michigan-state-president-r...) Anyway, I'm enjoying the book (still reading) but my take so far is that it's less a rose tinted view of academia as a whole, and more talking about how much good the people in academia who just wanted to make good computers/code/tools without trying to explicitly profit did for the internet and computing. Honestly I think that's part of the hacker ethic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic) that it's easy to forget or undermine in the pursuit of profit. That we don't just want information to be free, we believe in sharing and making things better, even if it won't make us a dime or give us a nice bug bounty. Anyway a worthwhile thought provoking article, to say the least.