Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM

jfruh writes "The Association for Computing Machinery is a storied professional group for computer programmers, but its membership hasn't grown in recent years to keep pace with the industry. Vint Cerf, who recently concluded his term as ACM president, asked developers what was keeping them from signing up. Their answers: paywalled content, lack of information relevant to non-academics, and code that wasn't freely available."

Re:where's the money?!

[speedplane]

Change the acronym to Applying Computers to Money and you'd have a popular organization.

Re: where's the money?!

[JustOK]

Thank God money evolved before humans or else we would never exist.

Re:It Costs Money

[dlingman]

Only if you use it just right. http://xkcd.com/323/ [xkcd.com]