And this differs from closed source software in what way? Did you believe that developers of closed source software typically get "a piece of the action"?
If they take CS courses, I'm sure they will. CS professors have been Unix's biggest boosters for over a decade. That culture is still pissed that anyone can use a computer these days without consulting a high priest.
Yes, like many academics you like to demonstrate to your students that you are superior and in charge. There's no significant difference between you and the other guy who won't accept anything from his students that isn't in Word format.
Well, companies measure things in counter-intuitive ways. If you or I were out of work last year and had to go into debt, we wouldn't consider that we made a profit just because we have a job now.
Youtube will be truly profitable to Google when purchase price + total expenses since purchase "is less than" revenue since purchase.
I don't want to provide the movie industry with excuses, but the blockbusters pay for the movies that aren't successful.
The "Big bosses" probably get the money anyway, but the average actor doesn't live like a king. Bill Gates and I are about the same age and started out doing the same kind of job. That doesn't mean you'll find me on the richest list in Forbes.
Actually, my late cousin was coding when I was a child (and I'm in my fifties, so you do the math).
But no, I don't think everybody has "mad skilz" but that's a far cry from suggesting that only a handful of people would be capable of being a Linux kernel developer. More like thousands.
That doesn't mean that the maintainers should be required to open their club, it's just that there's no real connection between elitism and skill.
"You start talking about supporting "truly new things" and then you complain about syntax? Changing language syntax is hardly innovative. "
It wasn't intended as an example of an area of innovation but an example of not wanting to try new things.
"The main thing stopping other operating systems (such as BeOS) from becoming reasonable alternatives is the sheer amount of effort involved, especially in dealing with the range of hardware out there."
OSs rarely start as multi-platform projects - certainly UNIX didn't. If it offers real value, it will be ported.
More importantly it's the original syntax for what we now know as "+=". Rather than abandoning a mediocre idea when it created ambiguous parsing, it was changed to it's current ugly form.
Then again, C was developed during the teletype era, so saving a few characters might have seemed like a great idea. Today, not so much.
People learn things in general from learning a number of specific things. Besides geeks are known to be interested in details that other people aren't interested in.
I'm not sure there can be a distinction between geeks and "monkey coders". Most developers who think some aspects of development are beneath them don't stick around very long.
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What percentage of these paid developers work for a company that derives its revenue primarily from software development?
And this differs from closed source software in what way? Did you believe that developers of closed source software typically get "a piece of the action"?
And I thought Jeremy was the master of trash talk, but I was wrong.
If they take CS courses, I'm sure they will. CS professors have been Unix's biggest boosters for over a decade. That culture is still pissed that anyone can use a computer these days without consulting a high priest.
"The vast majority of freshman enter college believing that there a is Microsoft software monoculture."
The vast majority of freshman entering college would have no idea what a "software monoculture" is - that's just an anti-MS code phrase.
"We are not provided with evidence, we are provided with allegations."
I think that sums it up rather well.
There's a difference between acknowledging that prostitutes make money and claiming that so-and-so is one.
So the evidence that this happens is that he's in the industry where it happens?
Yes, like many academics you like to demonstrate to your students that you are superior and in charge. There's no significant difference between you and the other guy who won't accept anything from his students that isn't in Word format.
And how exactly does he know about all these "off the record" activites?
MS proprietary specifications are world standards. That's what some people are trying to change.
I wish I could talk trash like him.
Yes, if you want to post here you have to be able to single-click on "Reply to This".
Well, companies measure things in counter-intuitive ways. If you or I were out of work last year and had to go into debt, we wouldn't consider that we made a profit just because we have a job now.
Youtube will be truly profitable to Google when purchase price + total expenses since purchase "is less than" revenue since purchase.
I don't want to provide the movie industry with excuses, but the blockbusters pay for the movies that aren't successful.
The "Big bosses" probably get the money anyway, but the average actor doesn't live like a king. Bill Gates and I are about the same age and started out doing the same kind of job. That doesn't mean you'll find me on the richest list in Forbes.
Well, at least your mobile phone options are better than what we have in the US.
Wow, you have limited bandwidth and you
waste it here?
"Not all elitists are jerks."
Perhaps you have a different definition of "elitist" than I do. It's an attitude, not a measure of skill.
Just because a group is selective, doesn't make them elitist.
Actually, my late cousin was coding when I was a child (and I'm in my fifties, so you do the math).
But no, I don't think everybody has "mad skilz" but that's a far cry from suggesting that only a handful of people would be capable of being a Linux kernel developer. More like thousands.
That doesn't mean that the maintainers should be required to open their club, it's just that there's no real connection between elitism and skill.
You could be thrown into Guantanamo forever if the President declared you an enemy combatant. No post-it or evidence required.
"You start talking about supporting "truly new things" and then you complain about syntax? Changing language syntax is hardly innovative. "
It wasn't intended as an example of an area of innovation but an example of not wanting to try new things.
"The main thing stopping other operating systems (such as BeOS) from becoming reasonable alternatives is the sheer amount of effort involved, especially in dealing with the range of hardware out there."
OSs rarely start as multi-platform projects - certainly UNIX didn't. If it offers real value, it will be ported.
More importantly it's the original syntax for what we now know as "+=". Rather than abandoning a mediocre idea when it created ambiguous parsing, it was changed to it's current ugly form.
Then again, C was developed during the teletype era, so saving a few characters might have seemed like a great idea. Today, not so much.
People learn things in general from learning a number of specific things. Besides geeks are known to be interested in details that other people aren't interested in.
That works too.
I'm not sure there can be a distinction between geeks and "monkey coders". Most developers who think some aspects of development are beneath them don't stick around very long.