One of the things that's led to the university Internet environmentchanging (per an earlier entry ) is thatuniversities are open environments in general and especially in termsof services. In this they are fundamentally different from companies,which can be much more closed and closeted environments.

I think that there's three reasons for this. First, there is a muchdifferent relationship between many people at the university and theuniversity. In a company, everyone 'at' or 'in' the company is workingfor

I spent a long time not really getting the need for coded, explicitimplementations of 'Interfaces', by which I mean things like zope.interface . Itdidn't help that I generally encountered them as part of very large,complex systems like Zope and Twisted, and they tended to come with alot of extra magic features, which made the whole idea seem like thesort of thing you only needed if you had to deal with such a beast.

Then, recently, the penny dropped and I finally