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Derivative Works And Open Source
marvin826 writes "
Larry Rosen has a nice article in the current issue of the Linux Journal about the legal interpretation of derivative works. Seems there are two camps in the world in terms of using open-source libraries, such as GPL licensed libraries, in proprietary software. Read this article and see which camp you are in! Having people working full-time on proprietary software, using open-source libraries, can only help the open-source software get better?
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It would have cost tens of thousands of hours to make the software function without the GPL'd software.
Uhm, I'll call bullshit right here. Tens of Thousands? You are saying in excess of 10,000 hours, lets just go of single hour, time to redevelop the GPLd packages?
You do realize you just said that one programmer, working 40 hour weeks, couldn't accomplish the task in 5 years?
But you know what? These companies don't have a clue what GPL even means. As far as they are concerned, the GPL software is just free.
Of course they don't if you are their liason to the GPL world. Why don't you stop artificially inflating numbers. My guess is you also told them, "Well, I can do this for you and it's GPLd software and doesn't cost you a dime, or the alternative is buying a small country in Africa, a 1908 dime, and a pool bool named Juan but we can settle for Raul, and oh yeah, a billion trillion dollars."
I used to know a contractor that sounds like you... He personally went through and edited "Two Thousand Five Hundred" HTML files instead of running a parser on them and expected to be praised for his work.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Steal her monitor. Give her a 15" -- clearly that is all she needs...
Yes. No doubt. It would probably take one programmer several months of time just to create a decent version of CGI.pm . Maybe I underestimated the hours, maybe it should be around 35,400.
I used to know a contractor that sounds like you... He personally went through and edited "Two Thousand Five Hundred" HTML files instead of running a parser on them and expected to be praised for his work.
I used to know, and still know, dozens of contractor's like you. You are the type of contractor that estimates you can do anything in one weeks time. Then you have to keep pushing back your deadlines until the entire project goes under.
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Yes. No doubt. It would probably take one programmer several months of time just to create a decent version of CGI.pm . Maybe I underestimated the hours, maybe it should be around 35,400.
Damn you are overpaid. If I had a spec sheet of what functions it needed, I could recode CGI.pm in a week at most. Maybe it is odd for you to code over 1,000 lines a day. I do it regularly, and I'd say 85%+ goes into production without change.
I used to know, and still know, dozens of contractor's like you. You are the type of contractor that estimates you can do anything in one weeks time. Then you have to keep pushing back your deadlines until the entire project goes under.
No, it depends if I have the spec sheet. If it's a re-write than yeah, it's no problem. Number of estimated lines divided by 800 is the number of days. If it's a new project, then it extends much much longer. I take a good two weeks for design, then another week sitting on my ass staring at the same thing to ensure I don't miss anything.
Maybe you are used to being surrounded by idiots, as it seems you are one.
Please leave the IT field, you are tainting it.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.