Well CPU is better then anything else to call it. The problem is when people say Computer they think of Computer the mouse, the keyboard, the Monitor, and on various computers such stuff is built in to the main computer. So they call it CPU for it is the Central Processing Unit. So I would just suck it up and take CPU as good of a comprise you gonna get.
That Baptists came out after catholicism. John the Baptist wasn't Baptists in todays view. Jesus was a follower of John the Baptist, then created his own religion based in part of those teachings. Creating the Christian church. Shortly after the Romans Converted to Christianity the term Catholic came out (as for Universal) as Rome ruled most of the known world. During this period they wiped out most of the other sects of Christianity including the gnostic, and then formalizing the Bible determining what sections to keep and what to toss. And pass those traditions. At a point the Roman Empire Split into to too Western Rome (which we recognize as Europe) and Eastern Rome (Which is Middle East and the Slavic Countries). After the fall of Western Rome the Catholic Church was the only unified power in the area. Then during this time corruption has taken place. During this time because of the corruption many of the Protestant churches separated from the catholic church as they felt it has lost its way. During this period Protestant churches were growing and other ones were breaking off of others and others were merging. Where at some point the Baptists came about, they may have based their religion off of John The Baptist teaching however they were descendants of the Catholic Church.
Tabbing has taken over the browsing world entirely! Except for the fact that only people who are technical seem to use them. All my non technical friends when I watch them browse the Internet it is quite painful. They keep on clicking a new application to open the browser for every page they want open at the same time. Google the URL (which I won't correct them as it is probably safer that way as they don't go to a mistyped URL and get a bunch of junk). When they have a lot of browsers open they Minimize and maximize or move windows around until the find the right one.
I would say more effort would be to making tab browing easier for the non tech person (Yes it is really easy for the tech person a click of the mouse or a Alt/Ctrl/Command - T) but the non-technical people will not experiment with their computer. When we see a funny little Icon we click on it and see what it does, a non technical person will just leave it alone. And don't even bother trying to get them to go threw the menu.
- Odd e-mail situations. I often access my e-mail over SSH when I'm at school. It takes extra work to get past the HTML, even when used for legitimate purposes, when accessing e-mail in less common ways. You mean to say you school doesn't have a web mail? Heck we had web mail back in my undergrad a decade ago, if your college is that antiquated you can always forward your email to a gmail account then you have a good web mail client ability to view HTML. You excuse is just saying HEY LOOK AT ME I KNOW HOW TO USE THE UNIX PROMPT SEE HOW MUCH BETTER THEN I AM THEN YOU! In real life no one cares and you just put yourself in a disadvantage if you cant read the formatted text.
- Spam fighting. I know from firsthand experience that stripping e-mails of HTML significantly increases the accuracy of statistical filters (like bogofilter, my preferred spam-fighting tool). The conclusion I draw from this is that HTML messes with statistics. HTML is often the way spammers keep their e-mails harder to detect, for example by embedding all their text in an image to prevent (or try to prevent) text-based filtering. Perhaps you should find a better SPAM Fighting tool. Perhaps one that can work with modern standards. Your argument is like saying "I don't think we should have a highway system because my jalopy car which I really like can't go over 45 MPH". Although I do not work for google but I have had good experience with Gmail and almost all my SPAM gets properly filters over the past 3 years I think I got one SPAM Mail in my inbox and perhaps one real email (low priority) in my SPAM Box. If your tool can't keep up then it isn't a good tool no matter what your personal feelings on it is.
- Readability. Sure, you can stick to , , , and if you want. But more often, the people who feel the need to send an HTML e-mail send me things with and and and and . These things are available for abuse.
Anything can be use for abuse. However there isn't much extra abuse that can go on with using normal HTML without scripting. That you can't do with text. In many ways abusing HTML makes it easier for filters to find abusive mail. Hey way are we changing the style in this tag to be an image, or why are these images and the links pointing to different spots. Standard text emails say for a scam before would say dial this 800 number where you have no ways to really finding crazyness in the HTML. HTML makes it easer for the scammers however it made them a bit lazy and made it easer for the spam filters.
- Necessity. The , , , and tags are easily replaced. How? Simple. *bold*,//italic//, _underline_ and Link[1]. It's been used for ages (long before I was around). This is even easily parsed by an e-mail reader who wants to see this rendered graphically.
So you want to replace one format with an other. Why HTML won the standard war, sorry There is no point in reusing one that lost. I would say that YOUR TEXT bases email browsers should actually do the reverse and parse the HTML to those text standards you like. Because all will happen over time is your method will expand and grow and get a bunch of features and have the same problem HTML has again. In the mean time people will be forced to experience less features.
HTML has its place. Slashdot, for example. Web pages that were the original purpose of HTML. Wikis that render their pages with HTML for deeply linked pages. E-mail, however, is not the place for HTML. HTML has become a common enough language for displaying information. It is not perfect however without it you will be getting more emails with Microsoft Word Docs attached. Because people who send you the HTML messages actually want it formated in that way.
Yes that true. However most of them just refuse what the official word is from their religion and believe whatever they think they should. Heck they even refuse to believe that Catholics are Christians and that Catholicism is Older then their form of christianity. If they cannot even recognize that how do you expect them to accept a theory.
Honestly what Degree can you get a job at today. A Teaching Degree or an MD. That is about it. The rest will require to actually look for jobs.
After you graduate (or right before you do so) you main job is to find a job. If you put resources in finding a job like you put in a normal job and try different outlets. Chances are even in a Bad economy you can get a job in a few months.
Because the issue with ethics we really need a clear line where what is right and what is wrong. Otherwise we fall on a sliding scale approach.
Most people who do evil things don't do it for evil reasons but fall on the sliding scale with ethics then they find themselfs in the black part of the shades of gray.
Ethics don't aways mesh well with progress but they are important, having an ethics border to stop even if it hinders short term progress has a greater long term advantage.
So lets use Using Genetic Samples from people without consent. Yes you may find a cure for some disease and save hundreds or thousands of people. However knowing this material is being stolen from other people people in the long term will find ways to protect their property, perhaps by avoiding going to the doctor, or not volunteering their material as they suspect that it has always been taken away from them.
Secondly say my genetic material was taken without my consent however it is still linked to me. Lets say for example I am found to have a genetic trait that could cause me to do criminal act, so that information is passed around and then I am spied on as I am considered a risk. (Not knowing that I have an other genetic traits that hinders it) So my right to privacy is loss because my genetic information was stolen from me.
1. The more popular the browser the more well established the code is trend. Meaning Popular Browsers are older thus have an older code base. And because it is popular you are more careful not to break anything.
2. Popular Browsers have more safeguards and checks. IE runs a ton of Broken Code, hence why it loads up so much junk and renders it OK. Firefox does a middle ground at this. The less popular browsers the more it follows the stricter standard creating it to load faster as it has less checks.
3.Popular Browsers have more features which can slow it down
Exactly, Unlike other grants such as the NFS, the Gates foundation is very results driven. In essence Bill Gates is using the money just like in a business with the only exception the goal isn't to make more money to to have the best effect on humanity. So 100k grant to do some research (And this guy probably has other money, Money from the university that pays his salary and facilities) The 100k pays for tools and grad students (Who work cheap) to help with his research. Now with further study if it shows more of a success then he may get more. But if it is a dead end research the Gates Foundation is only down 100k vs. More.
1. Most Piracy isn't a for profit business. It is just some one who downloads a bunch of pirated stuff, when he actually does buy a product he will post it online for the rest to pirate, combined with a few hackers to break any DRM to make sure what they get wont get others in trouble. But they do it to protect themselves because they don't want to pay for the software. Granted there is some people making money off of software piracy. However most of it is if any money trades hands is to cover cost.
2. They already don't respect your license. Why would they respect this. It is like telling the wolves in the zoo if they don't eat the rabbits then they will get a good meal later, then place a bunch of rabbits in the wolf cage of hungry wolves. They have already convinced themselves that Software Piracy is good and some how they are heroes for fighting the man.
3. After the fact enforcement, or in other words, if you don't do this and you are caught then we sue you. It is better to correct issues before it gets to that point. Though I am not a fan of DRM, DRM has probably saved a lot of people from getting sued and loosing a lot of money (on both sides) as DRM for the most part keeps the Honest honest. Sure it is a download patch away to breaking the DRM. However that is probably that one step too far that isn't worth it and they will just buy a copy. And no one bashing at the door and suing a guy for piracy of software that is stilled crippled.
I had a very slim budget, and would play "warez" until I could save/beg/borrow enough to buy the full versions I hear a lot of people say that... However never is private. In private I get I "warez" the program because I wanted it and only suckers pay for software.
Your excuse that I didn't have the money until I could save up. Well as a starving student how often did that really happen?
Corporations with policies of only using IE. Policies do change over time. IE policy for corporations don't have much about anything technical about IE, It is about reducing support and development costs, Being IE has the bulk of the market share means it is a good choice to standardize on that technology... For now... But say Firefox takes overs and most of those legacy Active X apps are updated to Ajax or Flash or even shiver Silverlight which can work on multiple browsers, then the policy will start to change. Espectialy if their new PC that gets shipped to them from dell or whatever have Firefox on it, and people start using it even though it is not supported by company. It will just kinda degrade the policy for a while then a new policy will come into place.
Non-technical individuals that have no desire to "upset" the voodoo magic that makes their computer connect to the intarnet. This is happening less and less. Most people have a degree of computer skills. If they wanted to they can run Firefox. Usually after a couple of crashes and viruses and enough yelling from tech people to them They will use Firefox. It really isn't that big of a change
IE enthusiasts. Those people change overtime too. Enthusiasts of any group are Enthusiasts because they made a decision a while back and with Hell or High Water their ego will not let them be wrong. Over time these people do the following. 1. Realize their path isn't worth it anymore. 2. Are forced to accept defeat. 3. Die/Retire
People who use websites that only work in IE (like my employer's time card system brought to you by Mrs. Arnold's fifth grade class). I am finding less and less of these apps. I almost never use IE and If I do it is usually because I am on a PC that doesn't have an alternative or the site is really old and still uses Active X to do all the work. For the most part if you get a Modern Browser Firefox, Safari, Chrome or whatever else and get it to run the latest version of Adobe Flash and Java. You have a real good Internet Experience.
IE will not reach 0% market share Any time soon. Just as I bet there are some people out there still using Netscape 2.0 or more likely Netscape 4.0
Still Microsoft is a bigger anti-trust offender then Intel is. I think it goes down to a case of corruption. While Microsoft may be a bad offender there is no European substitute who would have gained from this. But AMD you have a Nice European corporation who can benefit from Intel's loss.
Like what? Most of the new features in XP is just so your DRM will still keep working. And the security fixes are for problems that OS X doesn't have.
Besides 1 small problem may require a lot of changes to fix. The size of code changes and the problems corrected are not always linked. I remember back in the day when they switched from a.out binaries to elf binaries. If you just wanted to use the Distribution for Elf Binaries (Without a.out support) you needed to get new binaries for the whole distribution, a simple change that required a lot of data to be changed.
A Virus of such evil that can make most of the population miserable for about a week. However because of a catchy name, and the few people who did die from it didn't quite fit the normal flu victim profile.
Such a thing must be a human fault for creating such a weapon of mass annoyance. Or... It could just be what happens naturally in the word.
Granted it is bigger then the ones you normally get. But it has been a rather long time since we got an update to the OS. Almost twice as long for this one and oddly enough it is about twice the size.
When you loose a court case, guess what you feel like justice wasn't served. I don't care if you agreed or disagreed with the verdict. The point of these settlements is to settle the dispute. By doing stuff like this just puts more fuel on the fire and you are really burying yourself further. If you make the winner pay for winning he will not accept this as a settlement and there you go back to court and no longer you will be fighting for your original cause but for some a new source of stupidness you have done.
It is really just an object. Besides its historical value will increase of it being the first basketball in space. Just because it is a hundred years old it doesn't mean it is of a real value. If that was the case I would be in panic when I drilled a hole in my house to put in some wiring.
Yes but at least if you are planning to sell software you have a business model. Some times when people go to free software for a business they kinda forget a key component on where the money comes from.
Well it is a case with OO espectially for large projects you need to be sure that the wheel isn't reinvented. For large projects with hundreds of developers and thousands of classes it is really easy for a wheel to be reinvented where they could have just extended or just use an existing class. You need management layer (Who sees the big picture) to assure that the employees are not reinventing the wheel over and over again.
Even as a professional for a large projects (in which OO was suppose to build) you need a management layer to insure the rest of the people are just as professional and information is properly distributed.
Management doesn't always mean a pointy hair boss but a Sr. Developer who has a big picture view and enough authority to tell someone to stop doing it that way and do it differently.
The problem with the Fair Software model is that it doesn't seem to take expansion into the picture. When you run an at cost business then you have no capital to expand with, unless you want you developers to take a pay cut as you expand the company. Or for every employee you hire it is considered less pay the the original programmers pocket.
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You couldn't take the kids cell phone, make sure the TV isn't on when he suppose to study, and monitor heavily what he is browsing on the Internet.
Well CPU is better then anything else to call it. The problem is when people say Computer they think of Computer the mouse, the keyboard, the Monitor, and on various computers such stuff is built in to the main computer. So they call it CPU for it is the Central Processing Unit. So I would just suck it up and take CPU as good of a comprise you gonna get.
That Baptists came out after catholicism. John the Baptist wasn't Baptists in todays view. Jesus was a follower of John the Baptist, then created his own religion based in part of those teachings. Creating the Christian church. Shortly after the Romans Converted to Christianity the term Catholic came out (as for Universal) as Rome ruled most of the known world. During this period they wiped out most of the other sects of Christianity including the gnostic, and then formalizing the Bible determining what sections to keep and what to toss. And pass those traditions. At a point the Roman Empire Split into to too Western Rome (which we recognize as Europe) and Eastern Rome (Which is Middle East and the Slavic Countries). After the fall of Western Rome the Catholic Church was the only unified power in the area. Then during this time corruption has taken place. During this time because of the corruption many of the Protestant churches separated from the catholic church as they felt it has lost its way. During this period Protestant churches were growing and other ones were breaking off of others and others were merging. Where at some point the Baptists came about, they may have based their religion off of John The Baptist teaching however they were descendants of the Catholic Church.
Tabbing has taken over the browsing world entirely!
Except for the fact that only people who are technical seem to use them. All my non technical friends when I watch them browse the Internet it is quite painful. They keep on clicking a new application to open the browser for every page they want open at the same time. Google the URL (which I won't correct them as it is probably safer that way as they don't go to a mistyped URL and get a bunch of junk). When they have a lot of browsers open they Minimize and maximize or move windows around until the find the right one.
I would say more effort would be to making tab browing easier for the non tech person (Yes it is really easy for the tech person a click of the mouse or a Alt/Ctrl/Command - T) but the non-technical people will not experiment with their computer. When we see a funny little Icon we click on it and see what it does, a non technical person will just leave it alone. And don't even bother trying to get them to go threw the menu.
- Odd e-mail situations. I often access my e-mail over SSH when I'm at school. It takes extra work to get past the HTML, even when used for legitimate purposes, when accessing e-mail in less common ways.
You mean to say you school doesn't have a web mail? Heck we had web mail back in my undergrad a decade ago, if your college is that antiquated you can always forward your email to a gmail account then you have a good web mail client ability to view HTML. You excuse is just saying HEY LOOK AT ME I KNOW HOW TO USE THE UNIX PROMPT SEE HOW MUCH BETTER THEN I AM THEN YOU! In real life no one cares and you just put yourself in a disadvantage if you cant read the formatted text.
- Spam fighting. I know from firsthand experience that stripping e-mails of HTML significantly increases the accuracy of statistical filters (like bogofilter, my preferred spam-fighting tool). The conclusion I draw from this is that HTML messes with statistics. HTML is often the way spammers keep their e-mails harder to detect, for example by embedding all their text in an image to prevent (or try to prevent) text-based filtering.
Perhaps you should find a better SPAM Fighting tool. Perhaps one that can work with modern standards. Your argument is like saying "I don't think we should have a highway system because my jalopy car which I really like can't go over 45 MPH". Although I do not work for google but I have had good experience with Gmail and almost all my SPAM gets properly filters over the past 3 years I think I got one SPAM Mail in my inbox and perhaps one real email (low priority) in my SPAM Box. If your tool can't keep up then it isn't a good tool no matter what your personal feelings on it is.
- Readability. Sure, you can stick to , , , and if you want. But more often, the people who feel the need to send an HTML e-mail send me things with and and and and . These things are available for abuse.
Anything can be use for abuse. However there isn't much extra abuse that can go on with using normal HTML without scripting. That you can't do with text. In many ways abusing HTML makes it easier for filters to find abusive mail. Hey way are we changing the style in this tag to be an image, or why are these images and the links pointing to different spots. Standard text emails say for a scam before would say dial this 800 number where you have no ways to really finding crazyness in the HTML.
HTML makes it easer for the scammers however it made them a bit lazy and made it easer for the spam filters.
- Necessity. The , , , and tags are easily replaced. How? Simple. *bold*, //italic//, _underline_ and Link[1]. It's been used for ages (long before I was around). This is even easily parsed by an e-mail reader who wants to see this rendered graphically.
So you want to replace one format with an other. Why HTML won the standard war, sorry There is no point in reusing one that lost. I would say that YOUR TEXT bases email browsers should actually do the reverse and parse the HTML to those text standards you like. Because all will happen over time is your method will expand and grow and get a bunch of features and have the same problem HTML has again. In the mean time people will be forced to experience less features.
HTML has its place. Slashdot, for example. Web pages that were the original purpose of HTML. Wikis that render their pages with HTML for deeply linked pages. E-mail, however, is not the place for HTML.
HTML has become a common enough language for displaying information. It is not perfect however without it you will be getting more emails with Microsoft Word Docs attached. Because people who send you the HTML messages actually want it formated in that way.
Yes that true. However most of them just refuse what the official word is from their religion and believe whatever they think they should. Heck they even refuse to believe that Catholics are Christians and that Catholicism is Older then their form of christianity. If they cannot even recognize that how do you expect them to accept a theory.
Honestly what Degree can you get a job at today.
A Teaching Degree or an MD. That is about it. The rest will require to actually look for jobs.
After you graduate (or right before you do so) you main job is to find a job. If you put resources in finding a job like you put in a normal job and try different outlets. Chances are even in a Bad economy you can get a job in a few months.
Perhaps but we are unable to give Hackers their good name either.-
Because the issue with ethics we really need a clear line where what is right and what is wrong. Otherwise we fall on a sliding scale approach.
Most people who do evil things don't do it for evil reasons but fall on the sliding scale with ethics then they find themselfs in the black part of the shades of gray.
Ethics don't aways mesh well with progress but they are important, having an ethics border to stop even if it hinders short term progress has a greater long term advantage.
So lets use Using Genetic Samples from people without consent. Yes you may find a cure for some disease and save hundreds or thousands of people. However knowing this material is being stolen from other people people in the long term will find ways to protect their property, perhaps by avoiding going to the doctor, or not volunteering their material as they suspect that it has always been taken away from them.
Secondly say my genetic material was taken without my consent however it is still linked to me. Lets say for example I am found to have a genetic trait that could cause me to do criminal act, so that information is passed around and then I am spied on as I am considered a risk. (Not knowing that I have an other genetic traits that hinders it) So my right to privacy is loss because my genetic information was stolen from me.
Well here are some simple reasons for this trend.
1. The more popular the browser the more well established the code is trend. Meaning Popular Browsers are older thus have an older code base. And because it is popular you are more careful not to break anything.
2. Popular Browsers have more safeguards and checks. IE runs a ton of Broken Code, hence why it loads up so much junk and renders it OK. Firefox does a middle ground at this. The less popular browsers the more it follows the stricter standard creating it to load faster as it has less checks.
3.Popular Browsers have more features which can slow it down
Exactly,
Unlike other grants such as the NFS, the Gates foundation is very results driven. In essence Bill Gates is using the money just like in a business with the only exception the goal isn't to make more money to to have the best effect on humanity. So 100k grant to do some research (And this guy probably has other money, Money from the university that pays his salary and facilities) The 100k pays for tools and grad students (Who work cheap) to help with his research. Now with further study if it shows more of a success then he may get more. But if it is a dead end research the Gates Foundation is only down 100k vs. More.
1. Most Piracy isn't a for profit business. It is just some one who downloads a bunch of pirated stuff, when he actually does buy a product he will post it online for the rest to pirate, combined with a few hackers to break any DRM to make sure what they get wont get others in trouble. But they do it to protect themselves because they don't want to pay for the software. Granted there is some people making money off of software piracy. However most of it is if any money trades hands is to cover cost.
2. They already don't respect your license. Why would they respect this. It is like telling the wolves in the zoo if they don't eat the rabbits then they will get a good meal later, then place a bunch of rabbits in the wolf cage of hungry wolves. They have already convinced themselves that Software Piracy is good and some how they are heroes for fighting the man.
3. After the fact enforcement, or in other words, if you don't do this and you are caught then we sue you. It is better to correct issues before it gets to that point. Though I am not a fan of DRM, DRM has probably saved a lot of people from getting sued and loosing a lot of money (on both sides) as DRM for the most part keeps the Honest honest. Sure it is a download patch away to breaking the DRM. However that is probably that one step too far that isn't worth it and they will just buy a copy. And no one bashing at the door and suing a guy for piracy of software that is stilled crippled.
I had a very slim budget, and would play "warez" until I could save/beg/borrow enough to buy the full versions
I hear a lot of people say that... However never is private. In private I get I "warez" the program because I wanted it and only suckers pay for software.
Your excuse that I didn't have the money until I could save up. Well as a starving student how often did that really happen?
Corporations with policies of only using IE.
Policies do change over time. IE policy for corporations don't have much about anything technical about IE, It is about reducing support and development costs, Being IE has the bulk of the market share means it is a good choice to standardize on that technology... For now... But say Firefox takes overs and most of those legacy Active X apps are updated to Ajax or Flash or even shiver Silverlight which can work on multiple browsers, then the policy will start to change. Espectialy if their new PC that gets shipped to them from dell or whatever have Firefox on it, and people start using it even though it is not supported by company. It will just kinda degrade the policy for a while then a new policy will come into place.
Non-technical individuals that have no desire to "upset" the voodoo magic that makes their computer connect to the intarnet.
This is happening less and less. Most people have a degree of computer skills. If they wanted to they can run Firefox. Usually after a couple of crashes and viruses and enough yelling from tech people to them They will use Firefox. It really isn't that big of a change
IE enthusiasts.
Those people change overtime too. Enthusiasts of any group are Enthusiasts because they made a decision a while back and with Hell or High Water their ego will not let them be wrong. Over time these people do the following. 1. Realize their path isn't worth it anymore. 2. Are forced to accept defeat. 3. Die/Retire
People who use websites that only work in IE (like my employer's time card system brought to you by Mrs. Arnold's fifth grade class).
I am finding less and less of these apps. I almost never use IE and If I do it is usually because I am on a PC that doesn't have an alternative or the site is really old and still uses Active X to do all the work. For the most part if you get a Modern Browser Firefox, Safari, Chrome or whatever else and get it to run the latest version of Adobe Flash and Java. You have a real good Internet Experience.
IE will not reach 0% market share Any time soon. Just as I bet there are some people out there still using Netscape 2.0 or more likely Netscape 4.0
Still Microsoft is a bigger anti-trust offender then Intel is. I think it goes down to a case of corruption. While Microsoft may be a bad offender there is no European substitute who would have gained from this. But AMD you have a Nice European corporation who can benefit from Intel's loss.
So they should have used a microscope vs. a telescope then.
Like what? Most of the new features in XP is just so your DRM will still keep working. And the security fixes are for problems that OS X doesn't have.
Besides 1 small problem may require a lot of changes to fix. The size of code changes and the problems corrected are not always linked. I remember back in the day when they switched from a.out binaries to elf binaries. If you just wanted to use the Distribution for Elf Binaries (Without a.out support) you needed to get new binaries for the whole distribution, a simple change that required a lot of data to be changed.
A Virus of such evil that can make most of the population miserable for about a week. However because of a catchy name, and the few people who did die from it didn't quite fit the normal flu victim profile.
Such a thing must be a human fault for creating such a weapon of mass annoyance. Or... It could just be what happens naturally in the word.
Granted it is bigger then the ones you normally get. But it has been a rather long time since we got an update to the OS. Almost twice as long for this one and oddly enough it is about twice the size.
"because no telescopes with sufficient resolving power were tasked with imaging it"
Too bad they couldn't be in an orbit of a Space telescope I bet that could get a good picture of it....
When you loose a court case, guess what you feel like justice wasn't served. I don't care if you agreed or disagreed with the verdict. The point of these settlements is to settle the dispute. By doing stuff like this just puts more fuel on the fire and you are really burying yourself further. If you make the winner pay for winning he will not accept this as a settlement and there you go back to court and no longer you will be fighting for your original cause but for some a new source of stupidness you have done.
It is really just an object. Besides its historical value will increase of it being the first basketball in space. Just because it is a hundred years old it doesn't mean it is of a real value. If that was the case I would be in panic when I drilled a hole in my house to put in some wiring.
Yes but at least if you are planning to sell software you have a business model. Some times when people go to free software for a business they kinda forget a key component on where the money comes from.
Well it is a case with OO espectially for large projects you need to be sure that the wheel isn't reinvented. For large projects with hundreds of developers and thousands of classes it is really easy for a wheel to be reinvented where they could have just extended or just use an existing class. You need management layer (Who sees the big picture) to assure that the employees are not reinventing the wheel over and over again.
Even as a professional for a large projects (in which OO was suppose to build) you need a management layer to insure the rest of the people are just as professional and information is properly distributed.
Management doesn't always mean a pointy hair boss but a Sr. Developer who has a big picture view and enough authority to tell someone to stop doing it that way and do it differently.
The problem with the Fair Software model is that it doesn't seem to take expansion into the picture. When you run an at cost business then you have no capital to expand with, unless you want you developers to take a pay cut as you expand the company. Or for every employee you hire it is considered less pay the the original programmers pocket.