From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
To: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 13:24:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <24207.1596313489@hop.toad.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp-V9fL2f_bShaiihxumoCq+p3B-mOfkjkJCCr_XWBfKBA@mail.gmail.com>
John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> wrote:
> The use of honorifics was subtly discouraged at the Labs. I never saw a
> policy statement, but nobody I knew used "Dr" (except those in the medical
> department), even though the place was crawling with doctoral degrees.
Yes -- but their administration was anything but egalitarian or
meritocratic. I know someone who had immense trouble getting inside the
door at the Labs because "all" he had was a bachelor's degree. Let
their character be judged by how they treated a stranger.
Sign me proud to have succeeded in life with no degrees at all,
John Gilmore
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-01 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-31 0:03 Kirk McKusick
2020-07-31 0:26 ` Royce Williams
2020-07-31 0:30 ` Dan Cross
2020-07-31 0:36 ` Rich Morin
2020-08-01 7:14 ` markus schnalke
2020-08-01 14:13 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 15:08 ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-01 16:43 ` Dan Cross
2020-08-01 17:21 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2020-08-01 17:34 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-08-01 17:48 ` John Cowan
2020-08-01 20:24 ` John Gilmore [this message]
2020-07-31 0:35 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-31 0:54 ` John Cowan
2020-07-31 12:56 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-01 16:44 [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's dissertation Doug McIlroy
2020-08-01 21:24 [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation Norman Wilson
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