Re: SDO vs academic conference, was poster sessions

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Fri, 14 January 2011 08:21 UTC

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On 11/Jan/11 20:32, John C Klensin wrote:
> --On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:35 -0800 Randy Presuhn
> <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>>> At issue though is that these individuals get paid
>>> (sponsored) by someone, either directly or indirectly by
>>> corporations and/or governments.
>> 
>> Not necessarily.  Some of us have no employer and just do this
>> stuff for the fun of it.
> 
> Indeed.  Although I'm increasingly taking exception to the "fun"
> part.

If you remove fun, what else remains that can be used as a compass to
take a bearing in iffy circumstances?