Great posting - these posters should get real - the guy is being asked to write code and be paid for it. That's what thousands and thousands of developers do every day.
It is kind of flattering.
Of course, this all comes down to how much they are prepared to pay you.
Bzzzt! Wrong.
He is being asked *not* to write code *ever again* for this particular open source project. The company wants to take and not give back, and he'd be an accomplice for this.
But remember that 90% of everything is crap; I'd be vary of considering any code well written by default. Especially considering that Perl appears to be optimised towards unintelligible:) http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=494663
1. Find some part of cosmology that is not yet fully explained (there are a lot of these, so this part is easy!)
2. Claim the explanation is ELECTRICITY!
3. Never provide any proof ever, only claim that the prevailing, incomplete theory is wrong.
The standards which can actually be implemented and have an open source reference implementation, such as the Open Document Format (ODF), will become the de-facto standards at least for archive and long term storage.
why not give me permission to open source it? It will make the company look good. Well, I can think of one reason why not. He said the code was supplanted by other code that performs the same function. That seems to imply that the company's new product may one day be in competition with older code that it paid to develop, and that its author continues to work on despite being an employee. Sounds like a tough sell to me! Bringing up this argument against open-sourcing the old code is tantamount to not trusting their new code to be better.
Here's an example of proprietary software released as open source, which benefited the original "owner":
URL:http://ceps.sourceforge.net/
If you want to do things by-the-book, you can use pagefilescript.vbs which happens to be in the %systemroot%/system32 directory in XP, 2003, and probably Vista. Info here.
There ain't no such thing on XP (the article speaks of 2003 only).
Instead of hacking the registry, there's Start->Settings->ControlPanel->System, "Advanced" tab, Performance, another "Advanced" tab, Virtual memory section, "Change". You can set the sizes and locations of paging files.
Extra credit:
Which files under/boot,/etc,/sbin, and so on would you be willing to stake your career on being "safe to corrupt by 1 byte" and still guarantee a bootable system?
Remember, Apple is, at heart, a hardware company. They enjoy very high returns from selling shiny Apple boxes. OS X and all Apple software has one purpose only: to make people buy Apple *hardware*. If any J. Random Intel box could run OS X (out of the box and not through complicated hacks) and people stop buying Apple hardware, Apple would be in big trouble.
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I wonder if he could be transferred to an Alaska prison...
Nah. Just put him in a cell with an ex-lawyer from Florida.
That would be classified as cruel and unusual punishment...
4. Profit !
Great posting - these posters should get real - the guy is being asked to write code and be paid for it. That's what thousands and thousands of developers do every day. It is kind of flattering. Of course, this all comes down to how much they are prepared to pay you.
Bzzzt! Wrong. He is being asked *not* to write code *ever again* for this particular open source project. The company wants to take and not give back, and he'd be an accomplice for this.
Integrity ... wha? He's talking about switching from free work to paid work, not becoming a Nazi for a couple of shiny nickles.
Godwin would be proud.
But remember that 90% of everything is crap; I'd be vary of considering any code well written by default. Especially considering that Perl appears to be optimised towards unintelligible :)
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=494663
4. Profit !
But how do you keep the WCC out ?
Damn, just when I ran out of mod points :(
That should be
4. Profit !
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Here's an example of proprietary software released as open source, which benefited the original "owner": URL:http://ceps.sourceforge.net/
That's a lie.
This sentence no verb.
Good riddance. I hated those jumping puzzles at the end of Half-Life.
There ain't no such thing on XP (the article speaks of 2003 only).
Instead of hacking the registry, there's Start->Settings->ControlPanel->System, "Advanced" tab, Performance, another "Advanced" tab, Virtual memory section, "Change". You can set the sizes and locations of paging files.
Remember, Apple is, at heart, a hardware company. They enjoy very high returns from selling shiny Apple boxes. OS X and all Apple software has one purpose only: to make people buy Apple *hardware*. If any J. Random Intel box could run OS X (out of the box and not through complicated hacks) and people stop buying Apple hardware, Apple would be in big trouble.