Your definition of a real-time system is a little too loose. A payroll system is not a real-time system. Sure, the employees might get angry if the payroll is not submitted on time, but a hard real-time system has well-defined fixed time constraints, and guarantees that these critical tasks will be completed on time. A payroll system makes no guarentees. Whereas a soft real-time system schedules critical tasks over other tasks, and the task retains its priority until it is complete. If you run a payroll system, it will not use all of your system resources until the pay day comes.
No, THIS is wrong. If somebody hires you to work for them, the work you do is property of the person who hired you. You don't have the right to do with it what you want.
I can't see how eliminating pro bono work would reduce frivolous lawsuites. A lawyer ususally works pro bono on a case when he/she feels it's a worthy cause. Lawyers usually file a frivolous lawsuit when they think they can make some money off of it.
I used to be a full-time employee for an animation studio. I quit, and later came back and worked freelance for them for a week. They didn't pay me. I bugged them for three months, and finally threatened them saying that I was in contact with the Department of Labor, which I was. They finally paid up. I suggest the same to this guy.
Why not a class action suit against Microsoft? Sure, the users of IIS can't sue because of Microsoft's license agreement, but we innocent Apache users are having our bandwidth sucked because of it, and we never agreed to MS's agreement.
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Your definition of a real-time system is a little too loose. A payroll system is not a real-time system. Sure, the employees might get angry if the payroll is not submitted on time, but a hard real-time system has well-defined fixed time constraints, and guarantees that these critical tasks will be completed on time. A payroll system makes no guarentees. Whereas a soft real-time system schedules critical tasks over other tasks, and the task retains its priority until it is complete. If you run a payroll system, it will not use all of your system resources until the pay day comes.
No, THIS is wrong. If somebody hires you to work for them, the work you do is property of the person who hired you. You don't have the right to do with it what you want.
I can't see how eliminating pro bono work would reduce frivolous lawsuites. A lawyer ususally works pro bono on a case when he/she feels it's a worthy cause. Lawyers usually file a frivolous lawsuit when they think they can make some money off of it.
I used to be a full-time employee for an animation studio. I quit, and later came back and worked freelance for them for a week. They didn't pay me. I bugged them for three months, and finally threatened them saying that I was in contact with the Department of Labor, which I was. They finally paid up. I suggest the same to this guy.
Why not a class action suit against Microsoft? Sure, the users of IIS can't sue because of Microsoft's license agreement, but we innocent Apache users are having our bandwidth sucked because of it, and we never agreed to MS's agreement.