Here is what some really smart people have to say about this:
"The use of internal upper-case letters is ugly; it conflicts with the conventions of ordinary language; and it leads to cryptic names, hence the possible errors (compare aLongAndRatherUnreadableIdentifier with an_even_longer_but_perfectly_clear_choice_of_name)." Bertrand Meyer Object Oriented Software Construction, 2nd Ed., p. 881
"You should use names like ignore_space_change_flag; don't use names like iCantReadThis." Richard Stallman GNU Coding Standards
"I eschew embedded capital letters in names; to my prose-oriented eyes, they are too awkward to read comfortably. They jangle like bad typography." Rob Pike Notes on Programming in C
"Mixed-case names are frowned upon." Linux Torvalds Linux Kernel Coding Style
"Your choice of uppercase or lowercase letters can have a dramatic effect on legibility. In general, use downstyle (capitalize only the first word, and any proper nouns) for your headlines and subheads. Downstyle headlines are more legible, because we primarily scan the tops of words as we read." Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
7. Developers, Support staff, and Quality Assurance falls deeply in love with FreeBSD.
which leads to...
8. Developers giving back to the FreeBSD community. I can see how that might happen. But I bet those are very rare cases, because there is no way to enforce it.
You don't have to convince me of BSD's greatness. I know it's fantastic.
My point is that the hard work of the brilliant BSD developers gets hijacked all the time by unscrupulous companies.
Because of the BSD license, any parasite company can now just use those great new features and performance improvements in their proprietary products without giving back to the community.
Santos Dumont did fly the very first self-propelled, heavier-than-air machine. He did it in 1906, in front of a crowd.
The Wright brothers claimed they had done it in 1903, but nobody but them had seen it. Even if it were true, their machine was not self-propelled. It had to use a catapult to take off. Can you call that an airplane?
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What happened to Congressman Villanueva and Peruvian Bill Number 1609 (Free Software in Public Administration)?
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-20-006-26-IN-LF-PB
Bertrand Meyer
Object Oriented Software Construction, 2nd Ed., p. 881
Richard Stallman
GNU Coding Standards
Rob Pike
Notes on Programming in C
Linux Torvalds
Linux Kernel Coding Style
Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton
Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
which leads to...
8. Developers giving back to the FreeBSD community. I can see how that might happen. But I bet those are very rare cases, because there is no way to enforce it.
You don't have to convince me of BSD's greatness. I know it's fantastic.
My point is that the hard work of the brilliant BSD developers gets hijacked all the time by unscrupulous companies.
Because of the BSD license, any parasite company can now just use those great new features and performance improvements in their proprietary products without giving back to the community.
I'm still waiting for support for Colin McRae Rally...
These machines are great, but please save the word sexy for people.
The Wright brothers claimed they had done it in 1903, but nobody but them had seen it. Even if it were true, their machine was not self-propelled. It had to use a catapult to take off. Can you call that an airplane?