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Evaluating Open Source
CowboyRobot writes "Jordan Hubbard cofounded FreeBSD and now oversees the Darwin implementation of BSD for Apple. He describes open source as 'finally being openly acknowledged as a commercial engineering force-multiplier and important option for avoiding significant software development costs.' And thus, companies need to know how to evaluate open source engineering as an option for them. In a new article titled Open Source to the Core, Hubbard goes through a typical open source adoption process."
Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
Christina Aguillera dancing in a see through pink blouse with the tropical paradise on the background should fuel the sales of new kernel, me think.
It helps to attract real programming talent too:
.NET developer to work on Win 2003 and MSSQL/IIS.
Shop A: Pays $65K for a VB and ASP
Shop B: Pays $65K for Python developer to work on Debian with PostgreSQL/Apache.
Who do you think will get the better programmer?
"Piter, too, is dead."
It's a lot of fun to be able to mess around in USB device drivers one week then dig into a linker bug the next week
Great for you. Unfortunately, it's a real pain in the ass to have to mess around all over the supposedly working code. And I have my own problems to deal with, more than full time. That's my job. I don't have extra time to deal with a bunch of buggy messes left by others for the "fun" of doing extra work before a deadline.
oh, that's how a shared library is loaded from disk into memory
Again, great -- for college kids learning how computers work.
Your post all all about how great Linux is for a hobby, an Erector set for an OS. The article is about how great it's supposed to be for serious development. You don't build bridges with Erector set parts. You're not helping the cause, here.