Well, at your request I've done a cursory search for pertinant articles. Unfortunately I've found few online supporting articles. My comments are based on the book I'm currently reading, No Logo . (the Amazon.com reader comments at previous link are relevant to IBM). In NoLogo, the author relates of her trip to the Cavite "Export Processing Zone" in the Phillipines where workers in the sweatshops produce, among other things, IBM components.
Online I've found at best a
casual mention of IBM's foreign labour practices.
On a related note, but cursory to my original post are some
troublesome studies on miscarriage at hightech factories in Silicon Valley. (IBM is mentioned)
Consider the fact that IBM is a trans-national megacorportation known for contracting sweatshops to manufacture it's products... It's funny how IBM is playing up the 'freedom' aspect when their human rights record leaves much to be desired. More GNU Linux development/credibility/etc. is generally positive, but before we celebrate too vigorously don't forget to look at who are 'allies' really are.
There used to be a similar set of java-based tools here for decompiling swf to xml, but apparently the project has moved to this contentless place holder site. Will be interesting to see if it takes off again, and also how much cross polination there is between all the swf projects.
It might prove interesting (and lucrative) to create an app that has natural language processing to spider through webpages looking for comments/press releases/etc. about publicly traded companies and let it loose with a mock trading account. At least you have an easy metric with regards to success..
There are a lot of facets to what makes open source work.. one of the key elements is for developers to 'scratch an itch'.. I'm not sure exactly how paying someone fits in, but you could in effect scratch your own itch and set up a contract at source exchange that suits your personal application desires. Who knows..
Does it count even if it's still in 'beta' ? Quasimodo is pretty swanky (and very powerful) even though it hasn't reached the scope envisoned by it's author..
I've quickly gone through this book with a relatively simple project in mind, but with so many options I'm not sure which tools to invest my learning time in. On one hand, I know a little Java, and servlets seem relatively easy.. on the other hand there are things like perl and Zope (python) that seem popular. Anyone have any contructive comments from experience ? In case it matters, the intended project is a dynamic website with a database backend.
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Online I've found at best a casual mention of IBM's foreign labour practices.
On a related note, but cursory to my original post are some troublesome studies on miscarriage at hightech factories in Silicon Valley. (IBM is mentioned)
It's possible that the slashcode based nologo website I discovered as result of this search will have more information as it develops it's content.
Consider the fact that IBM is a trans-national megacorportation known for contracting sweatshops to manufacture it's products...
It's funny how IBM is playing up the 'freedom' aspect when their human rights record leaves much to be desired.
More GNU Linux development/credibility/etc. is generally positive, but before we celebrate too vigorously don't forget to look at who are 'allies' really are.
There used to be a similar set of java-based tools here for decompiling swf to xml, but apparently the project has moved to this contentless place holder site. Will be interesting to see if it takes off again, and also how much cross polination there is between all the swf projects.
I doubt you'll be able to buy it, but the developers do suggest supporting them by picking up some parsec swag here.
along with several other methods of hijacking Napster... here
It might prove interesting (and lucrative) to create an app that has natural language processing to spider through webpages looking for comments/press releases/etc. about publicly traded companies and let it loose with a mock trading account. At least you have an easy metric with regards to success..
There are a lot of facets to what makes open source work.. one of the key elements is for developers to 'scratch an itch'..
I'm not sure exactly how paying someone fits in, but you could in effect scratch your own itch and set up a contract at source exchange
that suits your personal application desires. Who knows..
Regards,
Ivar
Does it count even if it's still in 'beta' ?
Quasimodo is pretty swanky (and very powerful) even though it hasn't reached the scope envisoned by it's author..
I've quickly gone through this book with a relatively simple project in mind, but with so many options I'm not sure which tools to invest my learning time in. On one hand, I know a little Java, and servlets seem relatively easy.. on the other hand there are things like perl and Zope (python) that seem popular. Anyone have any contructive comments from experience ?
In case it matters, the intended project is a dynamic website with a database backend.