Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 12:12:34 01/09/99
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Very interesting thread! And nevertheless I cannot see too much differences between your approaches. Perhaps there is some confusion about how cooperation really works. Have you hear a jazz battle between, say, two tenor saxofonist? Well, they does not cooperate in the sense they follow an score from top to bottom, but after some prelims has been made, they try to cut each other with the best sequence of improvised bars they can produce in order to get something beatifull and let the other guy with no ideas at all, BUT that's the way cooperation in fact happens as this battle produces in each of the warriors an enhanced creativity and so the final perfomance can be a glorious masterwork made toguether. History of science show the same: not that guys works really face to face trying to optimize his efforts, but the effort of each of them to outperform the other guys and at the same time knowing what the others do -trought publication., etc- make of all this a cooperative effort, volens-nolens. Sure, MS would not get nothing just putting our genuses just to mix his ideas, but they can create a mix of mutual offer of ideas and tricks and individual work for putting that common ideas in a personal, better recipe. Something like that is happening between Ed and Christophe as they themselves recognize. Why not would 'nt be possible in a MS tank of programmers? Fernando
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