no kidding. a poor scientist looks at just the small piece in front of them and declares it the problem. When fixing a bug in software there are 3 ways to deal with it. Fix the data. Fix the result. Ignor it and blame something else.
No kidding. i used to make that kind of software. Most of our 'competitors' had such crap software we didnt even really care!
Our software was so overdesigned it never even made it to market! Most of that software was started in someones 'garage' and it was never really thought out how it was supposed to really work. The joke at the place i worked was the previous manager took the pile of 4000 suggestions and said hmm that looks good. So then we spent the next few years trying to make it work.
LORD if its anything like that place was (note the past tense!) his commpetitors are MUCH to busy in thier overly complicated code to even CARE that his code would be GPL. About all the probley could do is swipe a few ideas maybe even a few chunks of code. But code lifted from one proj to another does NOT usually work that way. Hell we had 2 products that did the EXACT same thing one for mac one for pc and guess what. the amount of shared code between the two projects was about 3000 lines (there were well over 2 million total). And that was at the SAME company where 'can we use this code leagly didnt even matter! The two systems were so DIFFERENT we couldnt share anything but ideas of how to do things. Code would never had worked and would have been flakier than hell. If i see one more HICFA form ill kill:)
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no kidding. a poor scientist looks at just the small piece in front of them and declares it the problem. When fixing a bug in software there are 3 ways to deal with it. Fix the data. Fix the result. Ignor it and blame something else.
No kidding. i used to make that kind of software. Most of our 'competitors' had such crap software we didnt even really care!
Our software was so overdesigned it never even made it to market! Most of that software was started in someones 'garage' and it was never really thought out how it was supposed to really work. The joke at the place i worked was the previous manager took the pile of 4000 suggestions and said hmm that looks good. So then we spent the next few years trying to make it work.
LORD if its anything like that place was (note the past tense!) his commpetitors are MUCH to busy in thier overly complicated code to even CARE that his code would be GPL. About all the probley could do is swipe a few ideas maybe even a few chunks of code. But code lifted from one proj to another does NOT usually work that way. Hell we had 2 products that did the EXACT same thing one for mac one for pc and guess what. the amount of shared code between the two projects was about 3000 lines (there were well over 2 million total). And that was at the SAME company where 'can we use this code leagly didnt even matter! The two systems were so DIFFERENT we couldnt share anything but ideas of how to do things. Code would never had worked and would have been flakier than hell. If i see one more HICFA form ill kill :)