At 11:26 PM 1/17/2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

>As an aside:
>
>Actually, I view the whole thing as a useful applied sociology
>experiment, from which much useful information derived.  If I
>had the academic credentials as a social scientist to be seriously
>published in the field, or wasn't busy with other things to the
>point of being unable to waste time acquiring them, I'd write
>several papers on the topic.

A lack of credentials -- or a lack of ethics -- hasn't stopped 
one Eric Raymond from writing papers on this topic, most of 
them self-serving propaganda. You SHOULD publish, Terry; you
make a lot more sense than Eric and wouldn't simply be out to
increase the value of your stock.

--Brett