Nice to know we're important enough to get our very own paid MS hacks ready to pounce on this story.
You left off the part where they've bought their way out of a lawsuit that may have taken out their backroom-bullying Android licensing business (not to mention the DoJ investigation B&N was pushing for).
If the missing features are not already in MariaDB, it certainly provides a nice opportunity to take that $20K and use it to benefit everyone.
(Though the OP doesn't identify the missing features, so it's not clear to me that they even exist. In his/her place, I'd be thinking about replacing the reluctant devs, not the target platform.)
Because "don't stress out the human" might be actually really unhelpful stuff like slowing down speech, presenting fewer options at a time, or even fewer options at all.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
The problem with GPL is that nobody can take the code private and make money selling it. Many people like me think this is unfair and tend not to provide unpaid work. I sometimes send bug reports to a GPL project, but would never even consider contributing any code.
Admittedly, I leapt from your declaring you'd never consider contributing code to you thinking it was wrong to contribute code, but that's pretty implicit, I think.
"Fact" is not necessarily a word that applies to historical timezone information. For example, from northamerica:
Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) that Detroit kept
local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted by city vote.
This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks.
Your reasoning is totally inapplicable to a choice between BSD-type and GPL licenses. With either, you can refuse to accept code contributions from users. With neither is a user who modifies your code obligated to give their changes to you.
Which is not to say that a BSD-type license is not a better fit for you, though that too has nothing to do with explaining why you feel it wrong for you to contribute code to GPL'd projects.
Your high horse doesn't let you do unpaid work, but you are willing to use these projects for which you send bug reports? Don't you feel morally tainted by encouraging other people to do unpaid work like that?
How about you consider use of the end result as your payment.
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Perhaps you didn't read the vitriol in some of B&N's reports.
They made it very clear that they viewed Microsoft's approach as nothing more or less than brigandry.
Nice to know we're important enough to get our very own paid MS hacks ready to pounce on this story.
You left off the part where they've bought their way out of a lawsuit that may have taken out their backroom-bullying Android licensing business (not to mention the DoJ investigation B&N was pushing for).
More like anti-RT (realtime).
I would have voted for Windows On ARM Hardware.
for the NYPD to try to win the tricorder prize.
You are showing your anti-MySQL bias...real MySQL programmers use char(0) columns all the time.
Those not familiar with Monty Program's business model can read about it here:
http://montyprogram.com/hacking-business-model/
If the missing features are not already in MariaDB, it certainly provides a nice opportunity to take that $20K and use it to benefit everyone.
(Though the OP doesn't identify the missing features, so it's not clear to me that they even exist. In his/her place, I'd be thinking about replacing the reluctant devs, not the target platform.)
if by "house" you mean to include "link to" or "facilitate access to".
Err, of course that only works for Perl code, which the code in question is not :(
No perl-fu required, B::Deobfuscate can be used to obfuscate symbol names (though it was written to allow easy reversal of such obfuscation).
Could we talk about UI when we're talking about UI?
Statements in the article reveal it was written, or at least researched, 2 months ago.
There has been a lot of churn since then, including in the Gnome 2 fork MATE and the variety of Gnome shell extensions making Gnome 3 more usable.
Was that really worth your time to post?
Because "don't stress out the human" might be actually really unhelpful stuff like slowing down speech, presenting fewer options at a time, or even fewer options at all.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
And don't forget the Microsoft-patent-shakedown-free.
"Simon, what day is this?" "God, I don't know. My damned chip is f***ed up beyond repair. It's turning to snot inside my head. It's driving me crazy."
everyone could just make their password "rms"
...over my dead body?
Oh. Sorry :)
Admittedly, I leapt from your declaring you'd never consider contributing code to you thinking it was wrong to contribute code, but that's pretty implicit, I think.
"Fact" is not necessarily a word that applies to historical timezone information. For example, from northamerica:
Your reasoning is totally inapplicable to a choice between BSD-type and GPL licenses. With either, you can refuse to accept code contributions from users. With neither is a user who modifies your code obligated to give their changes to you.
Which is not to say that a BSD-type license is not a better fit for you, though that too has nothing to do with explaining why you feel it wrong for you to contribute code to GPL'd projects.
Your high horse doesn't let you do unpaid work, but you are willing to use these projects for which you send bug reports? Don't you feel morally tainted by encouraging other people to do unpaid work like that? How about you consider use of the end result as your payment.
The cloud compiler had yet another outage.
Real years only have one Passover each; don't blame me for the vagaries of your calendar.