I played with Plan 9. It runs on a very restricted set of hardware. That fact alone makes it easier to improve stability. Overall, I did not find that it was more stable than many UNIX like OS's that I have used.
I will say that the whole environment was kind of neat and I liked it.
In a commercial developement house, programmers do many other things than just program. Those things take time here is a short list of my immediate tasks.
1. Gathering Requirments for the next release 2. Writing the Spec for the next release 3. Designing the the next release 4. Coding 5. Unit Test 6. Integration Testing 7. Status Reports 8. Programmer Doc's 9. User Doc's 10. Meetings to discuss all of the above
All of these things take time, so to claim that someone is not as productive as someone else, you must compare apples to apples. What are the procedures that are being used for developement? How extensive is the QA process?
You want medical software to be very well tested, while a web browser can fail and noone dies.
So, I think productivities is a complex issue and LOC does not do it justice.
The author is incorrect in claiming the Linus named Linux after himself. Linux named the OS Frenix. A freind of his coined the name Linux and it stuck.
Escient bought CDDB quite sometime ago. They have not patented anything. They own the data in CDDB. Check out the comment submitted by Krynos at the top of the page. He is one of the original developers and he explains thing rather well.
Take a few minutes to figure out what is going on. Escient just ask developers to follow a license, if they were going to use CDDB. Effectivly, Escient is asking for a little advertising for a free service to the user. What exactly is wrong with that?
Take a look at the post by Krynos, he is one of the original developers of CDDB. He explains things well.
Actually, Escient purchased CDDB from the original developers. Who had formed a company and who did in fact own the CDDB database. It has always been the policy with CDDB that data submitted became the property of the original LLP and now Escient. The only thing Escient is doing is requiring developers who wish to use CDDB to follow the licensing guidelines. It does not seem to be a big price to pay for a free service for the user.
Really, you and other are making a much bigger deal of this than it really is.
First, you have looked slander up in the dictionary. This is not the place to find a legal definition. However, I believe the same laws apply to both slander and libel.
It is amazing that your ignorance is so pervasive in almost every word you type. It maybe that the Internet is a world wide adventure. This does not mean that you could not be held liable for slander. The fact is most European country have similar laws concerning slander (a result of common law being accepted in many places). So, I suspect even in Norway, you could find yourself in a law suit (it would of course have to be filed in Norway).
For the most part, I suspect you are not smart enough to understand the problems related to unchecked public slander.
Her father clearly understands. He was making the point that they have veronica.org (note the org), not veronica.com (which Archie comics owns). His point is that they have a non-commercial domain.
If your going to make a comment, at least look at all the information.
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I played with Plan 9. It runs on a very restricted set of hardware. That fact alone makes it easier to improve stability. Overall, I did not find that it was more stable than many UNIX like OS's that I have used.
I will say that the whole environment was kind of neat and I liked it.
Troy
In a commercial developement house, programmers do many other things than just program. Those things take time here is a short list of my immediate tasks.
1. Gathering Requirments for the next release
2. Writing the Spec for the next release
3. Designing the the next release
4. Coding
5. Unit Test
6. Integration Testing
7. Status Reports
8. Programmer Doc's
9. User Doc's
10. Meetings to discuss all of the above
All of these things take time, so to claim that someone is not as productive as someone else, you must compare apples to apples. What are the procedures that are being used for developement? How extensive is the QA process?
You want medical software to be very well tested, while a web browser can fail and noone dies.
So, I think productivities is a complex issue and LOC does not do it justice.
Troy
Don't look at the previos story. It was scewd and many people just wrote a bunch of crap. If you read the license, you will know first hand
Troy Roberts
Rob that's a great review. I was totally entertained.
Troy
The Debian project is part of the Software in the Public Interest (SPI). SPI participates in several projects including:
Berlin
Debian
GNOME
LSB
Open Source
Open Hardware
These volunteers are supporting Linux and related software by donating the time to organizing projects to write software and writing said software.
Have you ever heard the saying, "Time is Money". You don't think all the time these people have spent in contributing time counts for nothing, do you?
Please think before you type.
Troy
The author is incorrect in claiming the Linus named Linux after himself. Linux named the OS Frenix. A freind of his coined the name Linux and it stuck.
Troy
Escient bought CDDB quite sometime ago. They have not patented anything. They own the data in CDDB. Check out the comment submitted by Krynos at the top of the page. He is one of the original developers and he explains thing rather well.
Troy
Take a few minutes to figure out what is going on. Escient just ask developers to follow a license, if they were going to use CDDB. Effectivly, Escient is asking for a little advertising for a free service to the user. What exactly is wrong with that?
Take a look at the post by Krynos, he is one of the original developers of CDDB. He explains things well.
Troy
He is one of the original developers of CDDB and explains the situation very well. Take a look and understand, think, then act.
Troy
Actually, Escient purchased CDDB from the original developers. Who had formed a company and who did in fact own the CDDB database. It has always been the policy with CDDB that data submitted became the property of the original LLP and now Escient. The only thing Escient is doing is requiring developers who wish to use CDDB to follow the licensing guidelines. It does not seem to be a big price to pay for a free service for the user.
Really, you and other are making a much bigger deal of this than it really is.
Troy
Slander can cost company millions of dollars. A person or company has legal right to protect themselves from malicious propagand.
Troy Roberts
First, you have looked slander up in the dictionary. This is not the place to find a legal definition. However, I believe the same laws apply to both slander and libel.
Troy Roberts
It is amazing that your ignorance is so pervasive in almost every word you type. It maybe that the Internet is a world wide adventure. This does not mean that you could not be held liable for slander. The fact is most European country have similar laws concerning slander (a result of common law being accepted in many places). So, I suspect even in Norway, you could find yourself in a law suit (it would of course have to be filed in Norway).
For the most part, I suspect you are not smart enough to understand the problems related to unchecked public slander.
Troy Roberts
All of the Compaqs that I have been forced to use have a bunch of propietary junk on the disk and non-standard hardware.
I say buy Micron, Dell, or build your own.
Troy
Her father clearly understands. He was making the point that they have veronica.org (note the org), not veronica.com (which Archie comics owns). His point is that they have a non-commercial domain.
If your going to make a comment, at least look at all the information.