[Edu-sig] Tracing the Dynabook: A Dissertation

[Arthur]

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> Implying that Kay's work as a scientist is somehow against sharing  
> and competition of ideas is an insult. It's not a grass-roots  
> movement like Linux, this is true. But that alone is not enough to  
> put him into the "bad corporate marionette" corner either. You picked  
> the wrong foe.

You have "bad corporate marionette" corners, not I.

I am a business man.

And as I businesman I have never come across such a thing as corporate 
research group independant of its sponsor.

Neither has Kay. Xerox, Apple, Disney and HP. Look at the Xerox story.

There is history, and there is history as myth.

You want FUD and provocation.

I think Kay is managing the mythology around him, and has been from day 
one.

And the fact that I *am* businessman, and *don't* have bad corporate 
marionette corners in perhaps why I think he is entitled to, and why I 
am entitled to debunk.

Art