The taxi drivers should explicitly charge the customers for music service, so that people know that they are paying these stupid taxes. No one will care, unless it touches them in some obvious way...
Oh how the standards have fallen. I would have expected that the article would not have been read by most, but apparently people don't even read the summary and comment on the headline.
You are not better technically if you have personal interest in it. But in a startup environment commitment is required. You have to sacrifice more than just salary. For at least a year your life goes out the window. 12hr workdays. Weekend workshops.
You don't want to work with them because they are a startup. You will not be able to handle the pressure in a startup. The 12hr workdays and weekend long workshops to ship a cool feature. That is common to most enterprise developers. Startups rarely look favourably at such people, while enterprise HR gobble up that crap like it's candy.
On the other hand I doubt that you will ever be a CIO at a company of the caliber your clients are. Not because you are not smart enough(I am not in a position to comment), but because you don't have the right education and MBA with BA experience. Unfortunately developers rarely rise to any BA role.
They don't have to cash to do it.
They actually do. Because MS has a good startup oriented programme. But people know that MS will hit them with licensing as soon as they smell the smallest amount of cash rolling in. And MS licenses are a hell to decipher... One of my former colleagues, that is the lead of MS sales department,has issues in explaining what those licenses mean.
They might increase or subsidise the value of the clicks though those apps. I bet that Android's Angry Birds is 100% ad revenue. Maybe some of that is partnership with Google.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances..."
Isn't that beautiful?
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true."
They build a front end on to it, but don't want to have to share all their patents with anyone who uses it.
Now let me translate your words into corporate logic: We want to use your source code and your work for free but, even by distributing it, we reserve the right to sue you into oblivion using patents...
That is one very important GPLv3 feature.
Newsflash - they already have. And most already have parted ways with GPLv2. Problem is, unless you're Apache Software Foundation, you will be screwed by the same corporations without GPL(v2 or v3).
The problem here is not GPL in general but specifically Version 3 which is anti-commercial
I wouldn't call the patent licensing requirements anti-commercial. They are anti software patent and Apple holds a bunch of 'em. Those anti-software patent clauses are the ones that they are afraid of. So... contributions will not dry out just because some American companies are afraid to lose their patents.
It's not just control freaks that have a problem with it. It's also security-conscious engineering teams. Those bits of GPLv3 betray a fundamental lack of understanding of the need for proper code signing.
Another person thinking he knows what GPLv3 is about. That is how some people think that by using some GPL software on an internal project will require them to publish it...
GPLv3 has nothing anti DRM per se, but does require an option to remove those DRM pieces. So... You can include a full blown DRM, but you are not allowed to add bits that prevent removal of that DRM. In the text from RMS:
GPLv3 ensures you are free to remove the handcuffs. It doesn't forbid DRM, or any kind of feature. It places no limits on the substantive functionality you can add to a program, or remove from it. Rather, it makes sure that you are just as free to remove nasty features as the distributor of your copy was to add them.
I'm not particularly pro GPL or against it. There is a need for GPL in many cases. It's totally absurd using GPL in many other. But this is slashdot and you know me and/or someone else would correct your "understanding".
GPL is like promoting free speech until someone saids something YOU don't like. True freedom is letting people do what they want.
The only truly free software is public domain. No exceptions. And GPL is like demanding, from the person that listens to you, not to obstruct other people listening to your speech.
PS: It seems that you think that someone is forcing GPL onto you. Because it's not the case. Just like the companies that use Apache software in proprietary products, individuals that release software with GPL require only adherence to their license not money.
PPS: Linux wouldn't be what it is now, if not for GPL. Because none of those new and experimental features would have been released for all of us to use. And GPL somehow hasn't stifled Linux'es march into corporate server room.
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You know what's infuriating for me? As a citizen and resident of a country where software patents are explicitly forbidden, I still end up paying for those software patents...
It's OK if the product was designed, manufactured in US or the company is American. But why do I have to pay for the software patents on devices that are neither targeted at US, not manufactured in US and the company is not based in US? All HTC Android devices have the license fee for those software patents included and forwarded to MS. That is the fucking loophole that I hate.
Basically that is one of the imperialistic features of current US. Reminds me of stamp tax...
And let us all not forget that The Netherlands have a Civil Legal system, not a Common one. So a judge can only rule based on the laws that are in place.
Democracy is political system, while republic is a form of government. USA, and as most democratic countries countries, is a republic.
UK, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden on the other hand are constitutional monarchies.
All of the above have democratically elected representatives in control of the government.
You obviously have not seen what the colleges/universities spit out as "ready for market educated individuals"
That is what the educational institution market their graduates as, not what we expect.
A university's job is to educate someone in the field of computer science so that when they are trying to write an application they know WTF they are actually doing
I totally agree that that is their job. Yet, as I said. universities don't produce people that understand the fundamentals of software engineering. They just don't. My test is how fast a graduate can pick up a programming language and project his knowledge onto a simple different syntax.
Most of them can do a bit of robotics,have some basics in AI, some of this and of that.
Totally fail in basics of concurrency and basics of database systems(I am not talking about SQL, but what are the differences between hierarchical, relational, network).
individual who was better at power point presentations than software engineering
Recently, that is exactly what I've been seeing from BSc holders.
Sorry, but architectural and analysis skills are very much academical skills. That is exactly what the academic institutions have to provide. And the fact that they are not providing that knowledge is the worst part. Specially when you are a graduate of a proper 4+ year university. Because analysis and architecture should be the most important part of the thesis.
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The taxi drivers should explicitly charge the customers for music service, so that people know that they are paying these stupid taxes. No one will care, unless it touches them in some obvious way...
Belgium is also in the radio shows.
Oh how the standards have fallen. I would have expected that the article would not have been read by most, but apparently people don't even read the summary and comment on the headline.
You are not better technically if you have personal interest in it. But in a startup environment commitment is required. You have to sacrifice more than just salary. For at least a year your life goes out the window. 12hr workdays. Weekend workshops.
On the other hand I doubt that you will ever be a CIO at a company of the caliber your clients are. Not because you are not smart enough(I am not in a position to comment), but because you don't have the right education and MBA with BA experience. Unfortunately developers rarely rise to any BA role.
They actually do. Because MS has a good startup oriented programme. But people know that MS will hit them with licensing as soon as they smell the smallest amount of cash rolling in. And MS licenses are a hell to decipher... One of my former colleagues, that is the lead of MS sales department,has issues in explaining what those licenses mean.
See... Buffer overflow is still there or is it properly uninitialized char**? GC is probably from something else.
And soon enough, just in 2021 we will have the C++1x.
WTF People?! Rename it already!.. The 201th decade is over, 202 is here!
They might increase or subsidise the value of the clicks though those apps. I bet that Android's Angry Birds is 100% ad revenue. Maybe some of that is partnership with Google.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances..."
Isn't that beautiful?
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true."
So... Samsung is in the clear...
Now let me translate your words into corporate logic: We want to use your source code and your work for free but, even by distributing it, we reserve the right to sue you into oblivion using patents...
That is one very important GPLv3 feature.
Newsflash - they already have. And most already have parted ways with GPLv2. Problem is, unless you're Apache Software Foundation, you will be screwed by the same corporations without GPL(v2 or v3).
I wouldn't call the patent licensing requirements anti-commercial. They are anti software patent and Apple holds a bunch of 'em. Those anti-software patent clauses are the ones that they are afraid of. So... contributions will not dry out just because some American companies are afraid to lose their patents.
Another person thinking he knows what GPLv3 is about. That is how some people think that by using some GPL software on an internal project will require them to publish it...
GPLv3 has nothing anti DRM per se, but does require an option to remove those DRM pieces. So... You can include a full blown DRM, but you are not allowed to add bits that prevent removal of that DRM. In the text from RMS:
I'm not particularly pro GPL or against it. There is a need for GPL in many cases. It's totally absurd using GPL in many other. But this is slashdot and you know me and/or someone else would correct your "understanding".
The only truly free software is public domain. No exceptions. And GPL is like demanding, from the person that listens to you, not to obstruct other people listening to your speech.
PS: It seems that you think that someone is forcing GPL onto you. Because it's not the case. Just like the companies that use Apache software in proprietary products, individuals that release software with GPL require only adherence to their license not money.
PPS: Linux wouldn't be what it is now, if not for GPL. Because none of those new and experimental features would have been released for all of us to use. And GPL somehow hasn't stifled Linux'es march into corporate server room.
You know what's infuriating for me? As a citizen and resident of a country where software patents are explicitly forbidden, I still end up paying for those software patents...
It's OK if the product was designed, manufactured in US or the company is American. But why do I have to pay for the software patents on devices that are neither targeted at US, not manufactured in US and the company is not based in US? All HTC Android devices have the license fee for those software patents included and forwarded to MS. That is the fucking loophole that I hate.
Basically that is one of the imperialistic features of current US. Reminds me of stamp tax...
Ah... So a year old article is very much appropriate... Good job!
Unless you redefine nil...
Did /. fix cure their Unicode allergies?
Nope....
And let us all not forget that The Netherlands have a Civil Legal system, not a Common one. So a judge can only rule based on the laws that are in place.
Democracy is political system, while republic is a form of government. USA, and as most democratic countries countries, is a republic.
UK, Spain, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden on the other hand are constitutional monarchies.
All of the above have democratically elected representatives in control of the government.
Never mind the fact that Gingerbread is on Nexus One already...
I believe there is a JVM that runs sans OS.
That is what the educational institution market their graduates as, not what we expect.
I totally agree that that is their job. Yet, as I said. universities don't produce people that understand the fundamentals of software engineering. They just don't. My test is how fast a graduate can pick up a programming language and project his knowledge onto a simple different syntax.
Most of them can do a bit of robotics,have some basics in AI, some of this and of that.
Totally fail in basics of concurrency and basics of database systems(I am not talking about SQL, but what are the differences between hierarchical, relational, network).
Recently, that is exactly what I've been seeing from BSc holders.
Sorry, but architectural and analysis skills are very much academical skills. That is exactly what the academic institutions have to provide. And the fact that they are not providing that knowledge is the worst part. Specially when you are a graduate of a proper 4+ year university. Because analysis and architecture should be the most important part of the thesis.
Yeah... Good luck! We recently escorted one of that kind of people off our premises...