Ok, I love MIT’s “OpenCourseware”:http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html initiative. I think it’s a cool idea and a great contribution to the commons (my words, not theirs). But “this post”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/12/01 to Phillip Greenspun’s blog just pisses me off. In the words of Jill Sobule, “why are all our heros so imperfect?”
For your enjoyment, and apologies to “Nina Totenberg”:http://www.npr.org/about/people/bios/ntotenberg.html :
_Question_: Why did you choose Microsoft Content Management Server?
_Answer_: We read a Gartner Group report that said the Microsoft system was the simplest to use among the commercial vendors and that open-source toolkits weren’t worth considering.
_Question_: Who did the coding and development for you?
_Answer_: Why cheap-ass coders in India, of course. (paraphrased)
Sigh.