Sorry, but when I hear kit I think of the products from the late lamented Heathkit company. I think it was building my own VTVM and Oscilliscope that sent me down the road to geekdom.
I'm sure everyone here is impressed by your vast Karma. Not to mention the courage to take responsibility for a poinless first post - after you were sure it was first.
What is Todd going on about? The free software licenses that make Linux what it is pretty well prevent most of what he is proposing. The point of the GPL is to give freedom to programmers. Do you think we will give up that freedom for the sake of a consistant "look and feel" - especially when we're not getting paid?
Software leasing is a common model in the world of IBM mainframe business applications. The software vendor leases an accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, purchasing, etc. package to the customer. Price is often based on machine size or number of users. Various levels of support are available. (You get what you pay for.:) Actually, these deals often involve a LOT of money, and are often negotiated individually with each customer (no shrink-wrap licesnses here).
A given package may consist of several hundred COBOL programs. (Yes, you may well shudder) Source code is usually provided under a non-disclosure agreement, and the vendor is usually happy to have you customize the programs for your specific environment - nothing is better for locking in a customer.
IANAL, but I doubt if this qualifies as open-source.
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Absolutely right. If all you want to do is compress the data, 1000:1 or even 10,000:1 is easily achieveable.
Oh, you say you want to decompress it later. That's a different story.
"The 1st eZine build with ASP.NET" - No wonder it's called Angry Coder.
Didn't you know - 80 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
The errors in this program would have been obvious if only he'd used Hungarian notation.
The problem with this is, the software most wanted by business users is Office. But what would be the Microsoft response?
1 - roll over and take it.
2 - modify the Office programs so they won't run under Lindows.
3 - modify the EULA to forbid running under Lindows.
If you pick 1, I have some land you may be interested in.
I believe it was called Bob, and no it didn't work.
Sorry, but when I hear kit I think of the products from the late lamented Heathkit company. I think it was building my own VTVM and Oscilliscope that sent me down the road to geekdom.
"I am a hacker, but I do not break into computer systems"
Are you trying to say you're not a very good hacker?
Yeah, I understand what you're saying, but aside from that, don't you think "Obfuscated Perl" is a bit redundant?
I'm sure everyone here is impressed by your vast Karma. Not to mention the courage to take responsibility for a poinless first post - after you were sure it was first.
Suzy Creamcheese, obviously.
Who the hell is ConsumerRevolution? Call me cynical if you like, but I have to suspect they're just trolling for email addresses.
Congradulations, Zico, excellent troll.
On the contrary, I think a bad review by Katz could help sell the book to /. readers.
What is Todd going on about? The free software licenses that make Linux what it is pretty well prevent most of what he is proposing. The point of the GPL is to give freedom to programmers. Do you think we will give up that freedom for the sake of a consistant "look and feel" - especially when we're not getting paid?
Software leasing is a common model in the world of IBM mainframe business applications. The software vendor leases an accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, purchasing, etc. package to the customer. Price is often based on machine size or number of users. Various levels of support are available. (You get what you pay for. :) Actually, these deals often involve a LOT of money, and are often negotiated individually with each customer (no shrink-wrap licesnses here).
A given package may consist of several hundred COBOL programs. (Yes, you may well shudder) Source code is usually provided under a non-disclosure agreement, and the vendor is usually happy to have you customize the programs for your specific environment - nothing is better for locking in a customer.
IANAL, but I doubt if this qualifies as open-source.