As a developer, it's in my best interest to use and recommend high quality and popular open source frameworks, libraries and tools instead of the commercial counterparts.
The reasons that I have are:
My acquired skills and experience can be easily marketed, transferred to other potential employers that are also convinced, as my current employer, of the benefits of adopting OSS.
Why do I have to recommend a closed source product? If I do that, the closed source company will earn the money and lock in my customer, leeching all the money that they want for the next years. I much prefer the money to be spent on me or my community members that do consulting, that will increase the chances that the OSS project be enhanced and maintained.
This motivates me to actively participate in the community: doing bug reports, sending code patches, adding test cases, doing beta testing, report interoperability issues, educate other members of the community because that increases the live of the project, widens the user base, increase the chances of me keeping or finding a job or becoming an independent consultant.
If I decide to become independent or create my own product or company, I feel empowered to go out and compete with other companies because I have access to very powerful tools, frameworks and libraries.
I win and others win.
This doesn't apply to every open source project, not all of them are equal. As I said, highly popular high quality projects like the Java projects: Hibernate, Spring, Ant, Tomcat, Eclipse platform, etc.
The same nature of the IT industry, the rate of generation of new technologies or just new packaging of old and proven technologies (reducing cost, improving performance, etc.), lowers the bar for newcomers to enter in the game and if they do the right things right they have a chance of getting their 15 minutes of fame (or profit) until the next wave of newcomers take the thunder from them after they fell in the complacency of their 'comfort' zone.
Check the IT horizon of technologies and promising companies, you'll see that the companies that today are ripe to grab a piece of an existing market or probably create new markets didn't show up in the radar few years ago.
"He is senior counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. Kennedy thinks Bush will be considered the worst environmental president in history and is concerned that Bush will dismantle 30 years of pro-environmental legislation."
rent a bike to go around the Golden Gate Bridge area, riding the bike and having a natural wide open view is nice, and an adrenaline rush when you're crossing the bridge!, I can feel it now.
Eventually you run out of people who will work for rice and you have to step up to paying a slightly higher amount, and the big cycle begins again.
Or in other words:
Now the demand is increasing for top coders in India but there is not an unlimited supply of premium quality people (even that India has a huge human resource pool, top performers will be few, as in every human activity), to attract them companies will increase the wages/bonuses (this is an unavoidable market force) to remain competitive, which will be reflected in the bill to the US customers. They are cheap now but that won't last forever.
Also since IT is a knowledge based industry, US companies must release their "know-how" of their successful businesses to the outsourcing company (yes you have NDAs or contracts, but at the most that protects you for a certain period of time), losing their core competences, which will backfire them in the long term when that knowledge "appears" at their competitors hands.
My experience tells me that outsourcing companies think first in themselves than in their customer, if they have an opportunity to make more business with the "know-how" acquired with your contract, they will contact your competence sooner or later.
The same place where the "mother of all asteroids" hit the earth and created such hard to imagine destruction is today one of the most beautiful places on earth: Cancun, Cozumel and the Caribbean.
Do we know the truth?
ROTFLMAO
Sure indeed, with all the "precision" bombing mistakes that they are going to make, killing innocent civilians, like 12 years ago.
Now, I'm sad.
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Ok, let's explore this 'What If' scenario.
What if Microsoft decides to implement NET for another platform different than Windows, offering some sense of full.NET compatibility with your already Windows-working "code investment", why would you like to use Mono instead of the "official" MS implementation?...similar to what happened to Sun's Linux JVM implementation, why you would like to use an open source JVM (like Black Down) if you can have the creator's implementation that gives you a security feeling that at least you're not going to have some compatibility issues...I'm assuming a business critical application, where your income depends, not a one-person pet/toy project...I believe this is one of the biggest challenges for open source.NET implementations...What if IBM decides to enter the.NET market and provide a high performance.NET runtime as they are doing it currently with Java, What about others?...I like the Mono effort, its community, but I haven't found the answer to this challenge myself...
...and when you are programming you are creating a state machine, the state machine aproach will help you to find some interesting corner cases.
State machines are good for GUI validation.
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Kind sir, you have class.
I want to share this discovery with my children which are very interested in dinosaurs and past forms of life that populated the earth ages ago.
I'd like to have more pictures than the currently released.
If you find a good source of pictures please reply to this post. Thanks.
I can tell that they are going to be very excited about this!!
and they will ask me tons of questions! =:-|
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eschrock#to_my_fa ther
Congrats to the high-tech family!As a developer, it's in my best interest to use and recommend high quality and popular open source frameworks, libraries and tools instead of the commercial counterparts.
The reasons that I have are:
My acquired skills and experience can be easily marketed, transferred to other potential employers that are also convinced, as my current employer, of the benefits of adopting OSS.
Why do I have to recommend a closed source product? If I do that, the closed source company will earn the money and lock in my customer, leeching all the money that they want for the next years. I much prefer the money to be spent on me or my community members that do consulting, that will increase the chances that the OSS project be enhanced and maintained.
This motivates me to actively participate in the community: doing bug reports, sending code patches, adding test cases, doing beta testing, report interoperability issues, educate other members of the community because that increases the live of the project, widens the user base, increase the chances of me keeping or finding a job or becoming an independent consultant.
If I decide to become independent or create my own product or company, I feel empowered to go out and compete with other companies because I have access to very powerful tools, frameworks and libraries.
I win and others win.
This doesn't apply to every open source project, not all of them are equal. As I said, highly popular high quality projects like the Java projects: Hibernate, Spring, Ant, Tomcat, Eclipse platform, etc.
The same nature of the IT industry, the rate of generation of new technologies or just new packaging of old and proven technologies (reducing cost, improving performance, etc.), lowers the bar for newcomers to enter in the game and if they do the right things right they have a chance of getting their 15 minutes of fame (or profit) until the next wave of newcomers take the thunder from them after they fell in the complacency of their 'comfort' zone.
Check the IT horizon of technologies and promising companies, you'll see that the companies that today are ripe to grab a piece of an existing market or probably create new markets didn't show up in the radar few years ago.
That has been the case in the last years.
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"He is senior counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. Kennedy thinks Bush will be considered the worst environmental president in history and is concerned that Bush will dismantle 30 years of pro-environmental legislation."
You quickly will see what is the pathetic direction that the Bush Administration is taking on environmental policy:
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http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=15
but you'll be able to turned it off in beta 1!
rent a bike to go around the Golden Gate Bridge area, riding the bike and having a natural wide open view is nice, and an adrenaline rush when you're crossing the bridge!, I can feel it now.
To work in security and military projects you need to have employees with security clearance and US citizenship
Or in other words: Now the demand is increasing for top coders in India but there is not an unlimited supply of premium quality people (even that India has a huge human resource pool, top performers will be few, as in every human activity), to attract them companies will increase the wages/bonuses (this is an unavoidable market force) to remain competitive, which will be reflected in the bill to the US customers. They are cheap now but that won't last forever.
Also since IT is a knowledge based industry, US companies must release their "know-how" of their successful businesses to the outsourcing company (yes you have NDAs or contracts, but at the most that protects you for a certain period of time), losing their core competences, which will backfire them in the long term when that knowledge "appears" at their competitors hands.
My experience tells me that outsourcing companies think first in themselves than in their customer, if they have an opportunity to make more business with the "know-how" acquired with your contract, they will contact your competence sooner or later.
The same place where the "mother of all asteroids" hit the earth and created such hard to imagine destruction is today one of the most beautiful places on earth: Cancun, Cozumel and the Caribbean. Do we know the truth?
ROTFLMAO Sure indeed, with all the "precision" bombing mistakes that they are going to make, killing innocent civilians, like 12 years ago. Now, I'm sad.
Ok, let's explore this 'What If' scenario.
.NET compatibility with your already Windows-working "code investment", why would you like to use Mono instead of the "official" MS implementation?...similar to what happened to Sun's Linux JVM implementation, why you would like to use an open source JVM (like Black Down) if you can have the creator's implementation that gives you a security feeling that at least you're not going to have some compatibility issues...I'm assuming a business critical application, where your income depends, not a one-person pet/toy project...I believe this is one of the biggest challenges for open source .NET implementations...What if IBM decides to enter the .NET market and provide a high performance .NET runtime as they are doing it currently with Java, What about others?...I like the Mono effort, its community, but I haven't found the answer to this challenge myself...
What if Microsoft decides to implement NET for another platform different than Windows, offering some sense of full
...and when you are programming you are creating a state machine, the state machine aproach will help you to find some interesting corner cases. State machines are good for GUI validation.
There is not a direct link between entertainment and productive, deal with it!