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Sun Nov 27 05:00:19 2022
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2022-06-22
text=(:title Network Science Foundation:)%0a%0aIRCNow's policy is always to create new economic opportunities%0afor our users. In the past, this has meant helping users learn new skills%0athrough virtual labs. Increasingly, it will now also include coding courses.%0aThese economic opportunities are essential to helping our users find%0awork, to keep our network a thriving LAN of opportunity and freedom.%0a%0aToday, we spend most of our time cloning non-free software that already%0aexists, to make them free and open. Basic science funding, however, is%0abeing cut at every public institution in the world. More and more,%0ascientific knowledge is becoming closed and non-free private property.%0aAt some point, however, we will no longer be able to rely on ideas%0ainvented by other institutions. To create new job opportunities for our%0ausers, we must pursue and explore new frontiers of science. This new%0afrontier must be made available and open for all our users to develop.%0a%0aNew jobs, products, and services all depend upon a flow of new scientific%0aknowledge. This new knowledge can be obtained only through basic research.%0a%0aSo we begin to work on setting up a research institution at IRCNow,%0awith the hopes that will expand the frontier of knowledge.%0a%0aInspired by [[https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/vbush1945.htm|Science, The Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush]]%0a
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diff:1655744728:1655705110:=23,24d22%0a%3c %0a%3c Inspired by [[https://www.nsf.gov/about/history/vbush1945.htm|Science, The Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush]]%0a
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diff:1655705110:1655703227:=3,22c3%0a%3c IRCNow's policy is always to create new economic opportunities%0a%3c for our users. In the past, this has meant helping users learn new skills%0a%3c through virtual labs. Increasingly, it will now also include coding courses.%0a%3c These economic opportunities are essential to helping our users find%0a%3c work, to keep our network a thriving LAN of opportunity and freedom.%0a%3c %0a%3c Today, we spend most of our time cloning non-free software that already%0a%3c exists, to make them free and open. Basic science funding, however, is%0a%3c being cut at every public institution in the world. More and more,%0a%3c scientific knowledge is becoming closed and non-free private property.%0a%3c At some point, however, we will no longer be able to rely on ideas%0a%3c invented by other institutions. To create new job opportunities for our%0a%3c users, we must pursue and explore new frontiers of science. This new%0a%3c frontier must be made available and open for all our users to develop.%0a%3c %0a%3c New jobs, products, and services all depend upon a flow of new scientific%0a%3c knowledge. This new knowledge can be obtained only through basic research.%0a%3c %0a%3c So we begin to work on setting up a research institution at IRCNow,%0a%3c with the hopes that will expand the frontier of knowledge.%0a---%0a> %0a
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diff:1655703227:1655703227:=1,3d0%0a%3c (:title Network Science Foundation:)%0a%3c %0a%3c %0a