[Edu-sig] Microsoft's KPL

[Arthur]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kirby Urner [mailto:urnerk at qwest.net]
> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:10 PM
> To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton'
> 
> It is you who bring in Marxism as a key word, without context, and expect
> that to mean something to others.  You presume a shared namespace.  I find
> that presumptuous on your part.
> 
> That's why I prefer when you delve into personal autobiography.  Then you
> start to make a little more sense to me.


Without going into great autobiographical detail - I suspect that I have in
fact had more potato pancakes prepared for me by and have spoken at more
gravesides of folks who had been members of the Communist Party in its
heyday - then most people on the list.

So the understanding and respect I developed for the intellectual enemies of
who these folks close to me at least at one time were, is not something that
came overly lightly to me. 

And yes I see some relevance between my respect for those thinkers and the
rejection of certain kinds of engineering efforts, that include a good deal
of the engineering efforts made in the interests of gender fairness.

No bogeymen.

Just some intellectual honesty.

Art