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Google Summer of Code Expands
bakotaco wrote with news from the Summer of Code site: "We're Expanding the Summer of Code... After spot reviewing the applications we've received for the Summer of Code, we were struck with their high quality. As a result, we were able to increase the funds available to support 400 students, double our original number of 200. While this doesn't allow us to take all applicants, we thought that this would be a terrific thing to do for the mentoring organizations, the students, open source software and computer science."
...building their personal army of Google programmers. It's an excellent way to get the developer community on your side. I am anxious to see what type of innovations will come from all this.
"...if people respected copyright more, like you guys do with the GPL so religiously, [the DMCA] wouldn't be necessary."
MS 'interns' make more money and are still very highly respected in the real world.
... where they still make decent money.
Of course, many MS interns go back after college and get full time jobs
Remember: just because you don't like their business practices doesn't mean there aren't talented people at the MS campus. Those of you in freshmen/sophomore years studying CS or math should DEFINITELY consider MS for summer work.
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Think of the time involved. Taking ~6000 applications and writing a 10 minute rejection: 60,000 person-minutes. That's 1,000 person hours, or half of a work year for some guy just to type up personal apologies. Who in their right mind _wants_ companies to pay people to do such things, that's like demanding that people have sucky jobs!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking