I think the XP folks would agree with you. Nobody is advocating that you don't do design, just that you allow your design to stay flexible in the face of changing requirements.
There's probably a "common misconceptions about XP" FAQ somewhere that deals with this:)
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I used to do this in the late 80s - the BBC Micro had a system where you could buy add-on ROMs. I didn't have the money to buy them, so I wrote a program to copy them onto a 5.25 inch floppy. Then I'd go into stores and copy what they had.
CowboyNeal: Main screen turn on
CmdrTaco: It's You !!
McNealy: All your fridge are belong to us
McNealy: You are on the way to destruction
CmdrTaco: What you say
McNealy: You have no chance to survive make your time
As long as you don't distribute the code, you're OK. The GPL doesn't cover what you do in the privacy of your own home - it just refuses to allow you to distribute the code to other people. This lets you, for example, use GPL code in your company's internal projects (but not in products that your company sells).
If you do want to distribute the code, you're out of luck unless you're prepared to GPL it.
'Course, when I were a lad, we never 'ad any of this game o' life nonsense, no, we'd be hand coding turing machines with orange peel and lumps of coal. And for backups we used to 'ave to brand the machine state on our own arms, and then our dad would hack 'em off at the shoulder before rubbing salt into the wound and laughing like a madman. And if we so much as complained, we'd be making punch cards out of our own saliva for a week.
And you tell the youth of today - they won't believe you.
So...let me get this straight. Freedom of speech allows you to say "You can decode CSS like this", but doesn't allow mp3.com to say "I think this is offensive/inappropriate content"?
If there's a cautionary tale here, it is that you can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of ``open source,'' and have everything magically work out. Software is hard. The issues aren't that simple.
Jamie was talking about Mozilla, but I think his point applies even more to Windows. Open source isn't a magic bullet that will suddenly make quality code out of the mess that is win32. The whole design is broken, from the fat32 filesystem, through the layers of legacy interface, to the thousands of haphazardly organized system calls.
I'll be sticking with Unix, thank you. It sucks, but at least it doesn't suck that much...
Something I admire in you is the vast number of things you can keep track of at once. Do you think that's an innate ability that you either have or you don't, or is it something that can be learned?
I just noticed Gurusamay's comment in the interview, that moving to 5.6.x will "help Perl conform to some conventions that are emerging in the Open Source community".
I guess these would be the emerging conventions that the FSF was using back in the late 1980s...
Malcolm Beattie isn't just "a Unix expert at Oxford University". He was also responsible for releasing Perl 5.005 (which you're probably running if you're a Perl programmer), as well as the Perl Compiler and multi-threading for Perl. Malcolm is one of the unsung heros of Open Source.
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It used to be that companies would refuse to provide Linux ports of software because they didn't think there was any demand. So we started writing to them to let them know that the market was out there. Now that there's a market, they're still not supporting it, and telling us to shut up.
If Blizzard wants to survive the next few years, it had better start listening to the market.
Protect yourself from the government with guns? Give me a break. Peasants with guns versus tanks and armies? I don't think so.
Now, back in the 18th century, when standing militiae were a really important part of the fight against dictatorship, the second amendment was a good thing. But this is 1999, when the main use of guns is to defend yourself against other people with guns. Surely you're not serious...
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I think the XP folks would agree with you. Nobody is advocating that you don't do design, just that you allow your design to stay flexible in the face of changing requirements.
:)
There's probably a "common misconceptions about XP" FAQ somewhere that deals with this
I used to do this in the late 80s - the BBC Micro had a system where you could buy add-on ROMs. I didn't have the money to buy them, so I wrote a program to copy them onto a 5.25 inch floppy. Then I'd go into stores and copy what they had.
Glad to see some things haven't changed...
I hear the military are using ROT52. Apparently the NSA put a backdoor in ROT26 to facilitate key recovery. Go figure...
CowboyNeal: Main screen turn on
CmdrTaco: It's You !!
McNealy: All your fridge are belong to us
McNealy: You are on the way to destruction
CmdrTaco: What you say
McNealy: You have no chance to survive make your time
If you do want to distribute the code, you're out of luck unless you're prepared to GPL it.
Remember, this isn't a native port to the win32 platform. You'll need an X11 server on your Windows machine - and that's what does all the hard work.
'Course, when I were a lad, we never 'ad any of this game o' life nonsense, no, we'd be hand coding turing machines with orange peel and lumps of coal. And for backups we used to 'ave to brand the machine state on our own arms, and then our dad would hack 'em off at the shoulder before rubbing salt into the wound and laughing like a madman. And if we so much as complained, we'd be making punch cards out of our own saliva for a week.
And you tell the youth of today - they won't believe you.
That should be http://www.rendell.co.uk/gol/tm.htm...
1990: You could easily read everything in comp.*. You bitched about all the weenies clogging up the alt hierarchy.
1995: You could easily read everything in comp.lang.perl. You bitched about all the weenies clogging up the comp.* hierarchy.
1998: You could easily read everything on slashdot. You bitched about all the weenies clogging up Usenet.
July 2000: You could easily read everything on kuro5hin. You bitched about all the weenies clogging up slashdot.
September 2000: Bloody weenies clog up kuro5hin. End of universe as we know it. Film at eleven.
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
--Alfred Adler
So...let me get this straight. Freedom of speech allows you to say "You can decode CSS like this", but doesn't allow mp3.com to say "I think this is offensive/inappropriate content"?
A crafty owl? Or was it a squeamish ossifrage?
Jamie was talking about Mozilla, but I think his point applies even more to Windows. Open source isn't a magic bullet that will suddenly make quality code out of the mess that is win32. The whole design is broken, from the fat32 filesystem, through the layers of legacy interface, to the thousands of haphazardly organized system calls.
I'll be sticking with Unix, thank you. It sucks, but at least it doesn't suck that much...
I've made a split-up version of the pages on my home page. Hopefully this is a bit easier to read than the 1.5Mb document on Joshua's site...
As an employer, I'd *definitely* interview you if you'd been through this course, and it would *definitely* increase my likelihood of hiring you.
The Brunching Shuttlecocks (hi fsck!) have a good article on why there's no settlement yet: http://www.brunching.com/features/feature-microsof tsettlement.html
Miguel,
Something I admire in you is the vast number of things you can keep track of at once. Do you think that's an innate ability that you either have or you don't, or is it something that can be learned?
I guess these would be the emerging conventions that the FSF was using back in the late 1980s...
(A minor niggle in an otherwise fine interview)
Malcolm Beattie isn't just "a Unix expert at Oxford University". He was also responsible for releasing Perl 5.005 (which you're probably running if you're a Perl programmer), as well as the Perl Compiler and multi-threading for Perl. Malcolm is one of the unsung heros of Open Source.
And here is an HTTP link: http://wuarchive.wustl .edu/doc/gutenberg/etext93/pimil10.txt
If Blizzard wants to survive the next few years, it had better start listening to the market.
Now, back in the 18th century, when standing militiae were a really important part of the fight against dictatorship, the second amendment was a good thing. But this is 1999, when the main use of guns is to defend yourself against other people with guns. Surely you're not serious...
Oh, be fair. The BSOD is just a cheap rip-off of the Amiga's Guru Meditation Number.
I've registered a couple of domains with Net Wizards, and really like them. They're $10 cheaper than NSI, and very fast.