Moreover, why are we comparing this to Wikipedia? The point about Wikipedia is that everybody can edit it. Before Wikipedia all the encyclopedias were like Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and there are still lots of them. We actually need both of these kinds of encyclopedias. Indeed SEP is a great encyclopedia, adapted very well for the web, and fortunately free for all the readers, but just because it's published on the web doesn't mean we have to compare it with Wikipedia.
Even though we had a basic distaste for patents, the game is what it is, and patents are essential in modern corporations, if only as a defensive measure.
I really appreciate their work at mocking patents law system, but I can't agree with this part. While we can't change patent laws, we can at least avoid having them. We're not forced to patent our ideas just to protect them, because nobody can make sure the very same patents won't be used for suing other developers. I live in Iran and our patent system isn't as silly and as serious as America's, but I'm trying to avoid even this. I've come with an idea for a new Persian soft keyboard for our own commercial product. Everybody says "it's so innovative. How are you going to patent this?" I'm totally avoiding this, even at the risk of our brand new idea being copied by the others. Fortunately my company is supporting this, but alas, our chance for changing behavior of big companies is even less than odds of changing patent laws.
You seem confused. He said C++ is complex, not C, and he is entirely right.
Yes. Actually, Pike loves C. He has written a C compiler for Plan 9. The language he co-designed was C-like. And I don't remember the source, but I once read that he writes object-oriented in C, using structures and pointers!
Actually, there's no need for a site listing open source jobs, because most of the time the contributer should be the user of the project, so you should keep looking at your own softwares, not a list of open source projects.
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Moreover, why are we comparing this to Wikipedia? The point about Wikipedia is that everybody can edit it. Before Wikipedia all the encyclopedias were like Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and there are still lots of them. We actually need both of these kinds of encyclopedias. Indeed SEP is a great encyclopedia, adapted very well for the web, and fortunately free for all the readers, but just because it's published on the web doesn't mean we have to compare it with Wikipedia.
Even though we had a basic distaste for patents, the game is what it is, and patents are essential in modern corporations, if only as a defensive measure.
I really appreciate their work at mocking patents law system, but I can't agree with this part. While we can't change patent laws, we can at least avoid having them. We're not forced to patent our ideas just to protect them, because nobody can make sure the very same patents won't be used for suing other developers. I live in Iran and our patent system isn't as silly and as serious as America's, but I'm trying to avoid even this. I've come with an idea for a new Persian soft keyboard for our own commercial product. Everybody says "it's so innovative. How are you going to patent this?" I'm totally avoiding this, even at the risk of our brand new idea being copied by the others. Fortunately my company is supporting this, but alas, our chance for changing behavior of big companies is even less than odds of changing patent laws.
Now they can use their Remote Application Removal feature.
You seem confused. He said C++ is complex, not C, and he is entirely right.
Yes. Actually, Pike loves C. He has written a C compiler for Plan 9. The language he co-designed was C-like. And I don't remember the source, but I once read that he writes object-oriented in C, using structures and pointers!
Actually, there's no need for a site listing open source jobs, because most of the time the contributer should be the user of the project, so you should keep looking at your own softwares, not a list of open source projects.
These magical pills can make your main weapon bigger than your shotgun.
Such a shame for a browser in 2010 that it needs an update for adding a search engine to the available search options.