From a business perspective where you are focusing on the product more than the services, GPL is a horrible, horrible idea. His company is intentionally trying to profit off of the work of others, charging for the programs and making it more difficult to get the source.
At the core, they are selling code written by others without compensation.
Idiot. If you read the article, his company is `intentionally trying to profit off' their own work. The stuff they do to feed their families. They don't have to release their source, and in the future they won't, because of the reactions of people like you.
1. Learn how to spell. It'll get you farther in life. Besides, if you do migrate away from Microsoft, emacs doesn't have a
built-in spell checker, AFAIK.
M-$ or M-x ispell-buffer or M-x flyspell-mode. Okey, it's not technically built-in--ispell has to be installed--or even very good. But it's there.
ie3 was funky. Stylesheet support that still beats ns4.?, a javascript runtime that was complete and almost bug-free, and frigging skins before Winamp.
Pity everyone I knew at the time used NS in all it's insect-ridden glory -- writing for it was a waste of time. Gah.
And then I moved onto grown up OSes that even Netscape don't ship binaries for, so that was the end of IE for me. 'S kinda hard to develop for a browser when you can't even emulate the system calls it makes...
ie4 was good. The best DHTML out there, the original DOM... 5 is bulky. I prefer NS on win32 at the moment, purely in terms of non-bloatedness.
Ah well. Still must be patient. Did you know Brendan Eich isn't brendan-at-netscape-dot-com anymore, but brendan-at-mozilla-dot-org ? Netscape isn't The Company any more...
`Thorn in the side' ? It hasn't been worrying them that much. They've just used TeX:-). Bear in mind that 'twas Mathematicians and Scientists who invented the damned thing -- if they really gave a flying fuck, it would have been there 6+ years ago.
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Idiot. If you read the article, his company is `intentionally trying to profit off' their own work. The stuff they do to feed their families. They don't have to release their source, and in the future they won't, because of the reactions of people like you.
M-$ or M-x ispell-buffer or M-x flyspell-mode. Okey, it's not technically built-in--ispell has to be installed--or even very good. But it's there.
It would mean that almost anyone currently employed working on linux should worry about their job. How cool would that be?[1]
[1] Not very.
Bit short, isn't it ?
For people who seem to universally consider themselves of above-average intelligence, geeks have an awful lot of trouble with the English language.
s/geeks/slashdot posters/g
And yes, I *know* that includes me.
ie3 was funky. Stylesheet support that still beats ns4.?, a javascript runtime that was complete and almost bug-free, and frigging skins before Winamp.
Pity everyone I knew at the time used NS in all it's insect-ridden glory -- writing for it was a waste of time. Gah.
And then I moved onto grown up OSes that even Netscape don't ship binaries for, so that was the end of IE for me. 'S kinda hard to develop for a browser when you can't even emulate the system calls it makes ...
ie4 was good. The best DHTML out there, the original DOM ... 5 is bulky. I prefer NS on win32 at the moment, purely in terms of non-bloatedness.
Ah well. Still must be patient. Did you know Brendan Eich isn't brendan-at-netscape-dot-com anymore, but brendan-at-mozilla-dot-org ? Netscape isn't The Company any more ...
`Thorn in the side' ? It hasn't been worrying them that much. They've just used TeX :-). Bear in mind that 'twas Mathematicians and Scientists who invented the damned thing -- if they really gave a flying fuck, it would have been there 6+ years ago.
Anywhere you want it to. Next spelling for today is Colonel Quadaffi ... I wonder how man (different) corrections we can rake up :-)
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