Actions (and words) have consequences. Perhaps Mr. Baldwin should have more carefully thought about his philosophy before making such bold, declarative statements.
I have no doubt that the current crop of self-hating liberals will be similarly "remorseful" when they realize that the slogans they screamed at society turn out to be wrong... and to have caused harm and given aid and comfort to the enemy. Sorry, but too late to call mulligan on something like that.
You go ahead and try to rehabilitate Baldwin- he said it, I'll quote it.
Open source != working for free or communism. Anybody who says differently is either clueless or a marketing 'droid.
Do you happen to have some numbers to substantiate this? The reason I ask is that most OSS projects that I have been involved in have many discussions about how the persons involved cannot put in any more time since they have to pay more attention to their "paying" job. This leads me to believe that most (if not all) OSS people are indeed working for free, contrary to your assertion otherwise. I say that whole thing comes tumbling down when the utopian OSS movement realizes that they now own the market for their given product and start charging lots of money to their now captive audience. Sound familiar? Read the history of the Redmond bunch. Human nature does not change. All we are doing is trading dictators, a la Russia circa 1917.
Ok, if people change careers (not jobs as you implied) then their developer skills atrophy. Congrats, you just killed the software industry, inluding OSS.
Can someone please explain to me who feeds the family when everyone is doing work for free?
What happens when programmer A, who does OSS development on the side when he comes home from working at MS gets fired because OSS cuts into revenues so much that MS can no longer afford to pay programmer A?
Not sure if it is healthy or not but it seems to work for me...as long as I remember to do the reset thingie. If not, it gets destructive after too long.
This is why IT attracts the ADHD folks. Switching between tasks keeps me from being bored and actually stimulates my interest in a challenging way.
ADD people actually sit around wondering why everyone else cannot keep up with them and their racing, high-speed minds.
"Doesn't everyone cycle through five things at once in their mind?"
Now of course, I must mention that every couple of months my world completely explodes and I must spend entire weekends doing nothing more than staring at the wall while I bring my brain back from the abyss...but that's another story for another time.
American corporations have been salivating over "The World's Largest Market" for how many years now? And the promises are always 5-10 years out.
All that has happened is the Chinese government has used promises like this to extract intellectual capital as a price for access to this super market.
Net result- Global corporations have sold out America for some never-to-be-realized promise of 100 billion Chinese buying their cell phones.
This will go down as the scam of the ages whenever that 5-10 year promise expires...probably in about 300 years...or maybe 305-310 years.
Following this logic, in about three years there will be no discussion of anything on the Internet since the answer to every question will be to Google for it.
This will work for a while until we reach the point where new knowledge cannot be "Googled" because the prospect for new content for Google has been sabatouged by people who reply with "Google for it" to every question.
This doesn't allow me to do what you mention with www2, etc. but solves the problem that I had, redirecting someone who types in domainname.org to www.domainname.org, which is where I want them.
So unless you already have your own 12V DC source handy...
Gel cell battery and a solar panel. Every self-respecting amateur radio operator under 60 (all ten of us) has these items.
Seriously, I had a blast doing remote ops with a gel cell and flexible solar panel. Perhaps I could use them with a new computer.
No kidding. Someday these folks are going to break out the databases of information they have been gethering for the past fifteen or so years and it is going to be a huge shock to most people.
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LOL. You are silly.
Not "what" but "who" defines evil is the important thing.
I have no doubt that the current crop of self-hating liberals will be similarly "remorseful" when they realize that the slogans they screamed at society turn out to be wrong... and to have caused harm and given aid and comfort to the enemy. Sorry, but too late to call mulligan on something like that.
You go ahead and try to rehabilitate Baldwin- he said it, I'll quote it.
Do you really believe that it would end there?
No dickhead. My karma is fine.
You get mod points? I don't know who I pissed off three years ago but I haven't modded since then.
Yep. Any Castro is going to die any day now...
Do you happen to have some numbers to substantiate this? The reason I ask is that most OSS projects that I have been involved in have many discussions about how the persons involved cannot put in any more time since they have to pay more attention to their "paying" job. This leads me to believe that most (if not all) OSS people are indeed working for free, contrary to your assertion otherwise. I say that whole thing comes tumbling down when the utopian OSS movement realizes that they now own the market for their given product and start charging lots of money to their now captive audience. Sound familiar? Read the history of the Redmond bunch. Human nature does not change. All we are doing is trading dictators, a la Russia circa 1917.
Ok, if people change careers (not jobs as you implied) then their developer skills atrophy. Congrats, you just killed the software industry, inluding OSS.
http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2 004/09/harvard_and_mit.html
Having Peanut Carter endorse an election most assuredly means it was crooked and/or the socialist won...same thing.
Can someone please explain to me who feeds the family when everyone is doing work for free?
What happens when programmer A, who does OSS development on the side when he comes home from working at MS gets fired because OSS cuts into revenues so much that MS can no longer afford to pay programmer A?
Not sure if it is healthy or not but it seems to work for me...as long as I remember to do the reset thingie. If not, it gets destructive after too long.
ADD people actually sit around wondering why everyone else cannot keep up with them and their racing, high-speed minds.
"Doesn't everyone cycle through five things at once in their mind?"
Now of course, I must mention that every couple of months my world completely explodes and I must spend entire weekends doing nothing more than staring at the wall while I bring my brain back from the abyss...but that's another story for another time.
Yeah, let's keep on supporting the UN too while we are at it. This is where your "Hate America" attitude gets you.
You really need to be a bit more intellectually honest than that.
I know...I know- Microsoft bad, Google good.
I personally think that we really need to start treating Google a little more critically.
Former JD Edwards employees can take a look at JdeAlumni.org
Besides, who in the hell needs a group to stick up for me against the government? I am an individual and I have a gun, that's enough for me.
American corporations have been salivating over "The World's Largest Market" for how many years now? And the promises are always 5-10 years out.
All that has happened is the Chinese government has used promises like this to extract intellectual capital as a price for access to this super market.
Net result- Global corporations have sold out America for some never-to-be-realized promise of 100 billion Chinese buying their cell phones.
This will go down as the scam of the ages whenever that 5-10 year promise expires...probably in about 300 years...or maybe 305-310 years.
This will work for a while until we reach the point where new knowledge cannot be "Googled" because the prospect for new content for Google has been sabatouged by people who reply with "Google for it" to every question.
Get it?
I wish I had a dollar for every time IBM has been mentioned as a suitor for a tech company.
Can't one just do a permanent redirect in httpd.conf to redirect gocc.gov to www.gocc.gov?
Gel cell battery and a solar panel. Every self-respecting amateur radio operator under 60 (all ten of us) has these items. Seriously, I had a blast doing remote ops with a gel cell and flexible solar panel. Perhaps I could use them with a new computer.
The CIA knew how to deal with copiers in Soviet Russia.
No kidding. Someday these folks are going to break out the databases of information they have been gethering for the past fifteen or so years and it is going to be a huge shock to most people.