Your article smacks of 'cluelessness'... 'We own Red Hat' [sic]
If you want to make money directly off your software then do so - sell it as traditional software or offer consulting. However it's rather dumb to bitch at RedHat when they sell your software and in turn go public - they're not violating the GPL in any way.
An important thing to remember is that sXc is currently only open to US citizens (well those who can get a US tax code).
The web site does state this and indeed goes on to say that they are trying to extend the scheme to other countries and tax systems.
Really this is a major headache for this sort of operation and the developers too - sXc get bogged down in paperwork and the developers have to file more tax returns...
It's portslave for sure. It's interesting to look at the two web-pages:
Mr. JQH's page (Erik Green) is visually pleasing but full of whines and gripes (the above article really) about the situation.
Mr. J's page (Dave Cinege) is short and to the point with important news and source. It has no gripes or whines...
Clearly only one side of the story has been told, to par it's been told by the most vocal side (going by the web-pages). This looks like a leaving jibe by Erik Green...
Indeed, one needs to be a better diplomat than programmer. However, if you extend this too far you'd simply end-up with a PHB controlling a drone of OS-slaves. Perhaps this is the reason Mozilla never took off?
And to take a tangent, thanks for pointing out that X11amp can be used on Solaris - I've been meaning to find out about this for a while.
Now, back to work - I'm sure RabTech can't waste a sys-admin on Open Source;)
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If you wanted to feel appreciated then you should have added in a clause to your software, something like:
A nice postcard is much better than loosing some cash on a poxy IPO...
Your article smacks of 'cluelessness'... 'We own Red Hat' [sic]
If you want to make money directly off your software then do so - sell it as traditional software or offer consulting. However it's rather dumb to bitch at RedHat when they sell your software and in turn go public - they're not violating the GPL in any way.
Remember you chose to licence under the GPL...
An important thing to remember is that sXc is currently only open to US citizens (well those who can get a US tax code).
The web site does state this and indeed goes on to say that they are trying to extend the scheme to other countries and tax systems.
Really this is a major headache for this sort of operation and the developers too - sXc get bogged down in paperwork and the developers have to file more tax returns...
It's too complex and boring!
Well the article is in the electronic edition...
"London Sunday Times" *cough* - what's that then?
Well this job advert does lend some weight to the idea of it being MIPS based...
This whole design lacks coherency. It has Java, AmigaObjects, the Linux Kernel, X Windows, Workbench, ...
Where is the unifying concept?
Lee (an ex Amiga PD author)
- Mr. JQH's page (Erik Green) is visually pleasing but full of whines and gripes (the above article really) about the situation.
- Mr. J's page (Dave Cinege) is short and to the point with important news and source. It has no gripes or whines...
Clearly only one side of the story has been told, to par it's been told by the most vocal side (going by the web-pages). This looks like a leaving jibe by Erik Green...Indeed, one needs to be a better diplomat than programmer. However, if you extend this too far you'd simply end-up with a PHB controlling a drone of OS-slaves. Perhaps this is the reason Mozilla never took off?
;)
And to take a tangent, thanks for pointing out that X11amp can be used on Solaris - I've been meaning to find out about this for a while.
Now, back to work - I'm sure RabTech can't waste a sys-admin on Open Source
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