On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 07:37 PM, Markus Mehring wrote: >> But NASA isn't in the business of generating value, they're in the >> business of making sure that nobody makes a profit. > > Let's keep the spite out of this place, okay? Thanks. I didn't mean it spitefully, but as a comment on the philosophy that underlies a lot of government funded efforts from science to arts - that is, money (particularly profit) corrupts what should be an effort of "pure" thought. SR ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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