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To me it feels like people protecting their little kingdoms within a large organisation. There is no market in which you have to compete against the new (super

by maurits 13y ago

To me it feels like people protecting their little kingdoms within a large organisation. There is no market in which you have to compete against the new (superior) competitor so the only tool you are left with are fallacies like referring to regulations and proper protocol.

avanderveen 13y ago
Semi-unrelated but, plenty of corporations see these fallacies as the best (and sometimes only) tools. In large markets money, political connections, and entrenched position are king. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism for details on political abuses, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry for examples of these fallacies. There's no such thing as open market as long as there is also government and regulation (not that government or regulation are bad or anything). But you're right, they're not the only tools. They're just (unfortunately) the strongest ones for those than can wield them.
ballard 13y ago
Having worked in a large profit center IT dept at an Ivy League, I know first hand how many bad apps are developed and how many hundreds of millions are frittered away (or in some cases tantamount to stolen). I think working with students to open source and support apps is a way to go. The university concerns are: looking bad, students using an esoteric language, messy programming style or move on. If universities had more open APIs and data like the city of San Franciso, more apps could be developed to make use of the data in novel ways, as opposed to permission-based "culture of 'No.'" Also this incident makes Yale look really bad... This could end some careers.
- girvo 13y ago
  In my personal experience with education IT, all those concerns are problems with actual contractors :/

by maurits 13y ago

avanderveen 13y ago

Semi-unrelated but, plenty of corporations see these fallacies as the best (and sometimes only) tools. In large markets money, political connections, and entrenched position are king. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalism for details on political abuses, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry for examples of these fallacies. There's no such thing as open market as long as there is also government and regulation (not that government or regulation are bad or anything). But you're right, they're not the only tools. They're just (unfortunately) the strongest ones for those than can wield them.

ballard 13y ago

Having worked in a large profit center IT dept at an Ivy League, I know first hand how many bad apps are developed and how many hundreds of millions are frittered away (or in some cases tantamount to stolen). I think working with students to open source and support apps is a way to go. The university concerns are: looking bad, students using an esoteric language, messy programming style or move on. If universities had more open APIs and data like the city of San Franciso, more apps could be developed to make use of the data in novel ways, as opposed to permission-based "culture of 'No.'" Also this incident makes Yale look really bad... This could end some careers.

girvo 13y ago
In my personal experience with education IT, all those concerns are problems with actual contractors :/