The lack of money in the system is driving major corporations to use OSS in order to cut costs.
As this trend continues and the tech economy continues to shift more and more towards OSS, many programmers will find that OSS programming becomes their full time job.
When OSS is your full time job, maintaining your project becomes mission critical. We can only expect better OSS from the current economic trends.
Simply look at the article about the effect of focusing so much energy on the low achieving students in our education system. The best and the brightest get left behind.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/19/0333202
Of course this is not the only reason for Darpa's brain drain. I'd suggest increasing salaries, benefits, etc. Private companies are probably doing cooler stuff and paying more.
In my evaluation, I determined that Joomla kind of sucks. It tries to be powerful and flexible like Drupal, yet as simple as Wordpress. Unfortunately, it ends up being just as complicated as Drupal and no better than WordPress.
*sighs* - I bet he's skeptical about anthropomorphic climate change too (there seems to be an extraordinarily high overlap between the two groups).
It's "anthropogenic" gases that supposedly cause the earth's climate to warm. Sadly, most of the C02 haters out there don't really understand climate science or science in general.
Actually, the debate over the effect of C02 on earth's climate is a much better example of the Spanish Inquisition type mentality of the modern scientific community than intelligent design.
There is plenty real evidence on the other side of that debate, but the global warming boosters show a frightening lack of curiosity about what the other side has to say.
This is probably because they never really understood this science thing in the first place. Science is about curiosity, investigation, discovery, and constant debate. Major scientific issues don't get worked out in a couple years.
However, I think evolution has withstood the test of time. Using intelligent design as the example cheapens a very valid point. If the scientific community looses its curiosity it loses its soul.
Yes, that is what it is often called, but the last thing the web needs is more stupid buzz words. Web 2.0 has been overused to the point of being meaningless.
Welcome to the age of mob rule.
We created the tech tools for the world to raise it's voice and assert its values. I think we generally assumed that this voice would express our values better, more clearly. I do not think this is going to be the case.
Maybe oppressive authoritarian regimes are actually a good thing. They seem to be pretty popular!
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The lack of money in the system is driving major corporations to use OSS in order to cut costs. As this trend continues and the tech economy continues to shift more and more towards OSS, many programmers will find that OSS programming becomes their full time job. When OSS is your full time job, maintaining your project becomes mission critical. We can only expect better OSS from the current economic trends.
Simply look at the article about the effect of focusing so much energy on the low achieving students in our education system. The best and the brightest get left behind. http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/19/0333202 Of course this is not the only reason for Darpa's brain drain. I'd suggest increasing salaries, benefits, etc. Private companies are probably doing cooler stuff and paying more.
In my evaluation, I determined that Joomla kind of sucks. It tries to be powerful and flexible like Drupal, yet as simple as Wordpress. Unfortunately, it ends up being just as complicated as Drupal and no better than WordPress.
It's "anthropogenic" gases that supposedly cause the earth's climate to warm. Sadly, most of the C02 haters out there don't really understand climate science or science in general.
Actually, the debate over the effect of C02 on earth's climate is a much better example of the Spanish Inquisition type mentality of the modern scientific community than intelligent design.
There is plenty real evidence on the other side of that debate, but the global warming boosters show a frightening lack of curiosity about what the other side has to say.
This is probably because they never really understood this science thing in the first place. Science is about curiosity, investigation, discovery, and constant debate. Major scientific issues don't get worked out in a couple years.
However, I think evolution has withstood the test of time. Using intelligent design as the example cheapens a very valid point. If the scientific community looses its curiosity it loses its soul.
Yes, that is what it is often called, but the last thing the web needs is more stupid buzz words. Web 2.0 has been overused to the point of being meaningless.
Welcome to the age of mob rule. We created the tech tools for the world to raise it's voice and assert its values. I think we generally assumed that this voice would express our values better, more clearly. I do not think this is going to be the case. Maybe oppressive authoritarian regimes are actually a good thing. They seem to be pretty popular!