Why should truly better technology need UN. If it is really better and has clear advantages, people will use it anyway (and if it is not, someone from UN saying something can't help it).
Open standards are better, but "maturity" of tools (ease of use) has its own importance.
MS - time to face it, almost noone apart from you is making alot of money selling proprietary sofware (alone). The real cash is in services, services, services.
Isn't this bad news for the brilliant developers who can write excellent products which can solve real problems and that are so good (or small) that they don't need paid support?
btw, I think there are still enough software vendors making enough money with proprietary software too. Open source and proprietary software can co-exist, they don't have to fight each other out.
I really fell in love with LXR when I used it to dig in Mozilla source code. It works really well for large code bases.
I can't say if this is the best because I havent looked at many other options, I just use MS VisualStudio for most of the development and it has nice browsing features.
IMHO good software shouldn't need too much support. As a customer, I won't like a business model which promotes making software which will need even more paid support.
I would rather want them to be in a situation where support is a compulsory added cost to the vendor (maybe them charging for it slightly less than what it costs them), so that they are more hard pressed to improve the software.
Open Source is good. Support is good. But, an Open Source vendor with support as the *only* revenue stream? Not quite.
First, if you had such a tough time getting used to linux, even after all this effort, I am not sure if the trouble is with linux or somewhere else.
Now back to topic:
Open source is here to stay, but the open source *FAD* will die out.
Its not a silverbullet/snakeoil which can be used as excuse for writing shitty code which is not good enough for people to pay for it (which makes for majority of open source). But as a development model, it has its advantages which only a fool will ignore.
Its the business model part where I agree with you. The effort should be paid for. Open source is great and working for open source is cool, but...
What hurts is not getting paid for the effort. Or worse, seeing someone else profiting from your efforts without you getting a fair share. The whole "moral obligation" thing doesn't clicks with me. If coding is what I like doing, I want to make a living out of it.
I will, by all means, prefer to work for open-source. But not without being paid for the efforts. Here pay doesnt has to be money, it can be just the pleasure of watching people use what I coded. I guess this just depends on "how much effort". For something I did in a few weekends, releasing source would make sense, but for something which took months of hard work, I will expect more materialistic returns. If this makes me a bad guy, I would prefer being that.
I would have requested others also to stop working for free, but my guess is that not many people do that anyway.
ps. plz do not give "support" as an answer to money question. IMHO good software shouldn't need too much support. As a customer, I won't like a business model which promotes making software which will need more paid support.
It doesn't matters if a browser is free or not... as long as there are alternatives available.
The whole idea is that there is no lock-in. I can move to any platform, any machine, any hardware, any browser any time. And still everything will work the same for me (except for the few things which won't, but then almost all web-developers are carefull enough not to use things which will break their website on any browser).
Now with FireFox 'available', I won't mind using IE (if it has the right features to attract me as a user. A large majority of Firefox users use it because of features, not because its open source).
But I still pity the web-developers who have to ensure their websites work same with all browsers.
AFAIK, there arn't any open-source patent-free standards for video codecs, fortunately we have better luck with image (PNG) and audio (FLAC) formats.
Besides MPEG-4, JPEG2000 is the only other "standard" option available for cutting edge video compression. JPEG2000 recently gained traction with digital cinema. But it will no longer be a surprise to see such patents come up for it within another 3-4 years. It has already had a near miss recently.
Another post by same guy describing his first day at job (at google) was removed. And I couldnt find any post on any of the "google employee blogs" describing their office experiences or anything which confirms the much hyped google-culture. (Maybe it was just that I didn't came across it, please point me to it if you come across one).
I am just not sure if they walk-the-talk. I hope they do, but I still don't understand the silence. Why are they so worried if they do what they say.
Oh, and by the way, That guy was fired. His blog (99zeros) which was started with the aim of writting about his life at google, was then labeled "life after google" and now redirects to his new blog.
At last a company is shouting at the top of it's voice, engineers make the world.
this reminds me of when steve balmer made his famous developers speech... "developers developers developers developers...
Seems to me like they are ONLY saying it out loud to attract best talent, I am not sure how much they actually follow what they say (I mean BOTH google and MS).
Its also a bit surprising how google talks a lot about google-culture but we hardly read about any first person account by an employee. Has NONE of their employees ever blogged about how their first month at google was (Or is it just me who couldnt find that)? I find that hard to digest, unless their is some policy restricting them.
More info at Data Compression News Blog
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JPEG Patent Challenged
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· Score: 4, Informative
They have already been challaged by many, but for the first time someone has a concrete case with 'prior art'. You can read more on this at The Data Compression News Blog
"Why when the press was being stomped before, did governments-- those people in *charge* of protecting rights-- never do this? Why is it that because we have a web-related buzzword, governments finally get with their societal obligations?"
Probably because "irresponsible" governements never listen unless they have to.
A part of the blame goes to citizens too.. for not speaking up loud enough... but that probably is because they didnt had the means to be loud enough... till now.
If likes of Google, Yahoo and MS stop helping the "suppressive governments", maybe this "means" will live long enough to make a difference. But hey... just like its all about votes for the government (assuming democracy)... its all about money for these guys (no assumptions needed here)...
I dont think any DRM solution can make much of a difference.
There are softwares available which, don't do the decryption themselves, and instead patch OS or iTunes/Winamp/WinMediaPlayer/etc... to output the decrypted stream to disk instead of the sound card.
There are also softwares available which just redirect anything sent to soundcard to disk. These can be used to record internet radio as non-DRM-protected files.
Checkout this another post at The Data Compression News Blog
http://www.c10n.info/archives/55
Sachin Garg [India]
http://www.sachingarg.com/
In India, mass IT awarness came at about the same time as Linux , so almost all new enterants are as much aware of linux as of MS and are making intelligent choices while choosing to learn.
Also, popularity of the OS will not depend on what Developers have learned, but on what the industry demands. Developers will just go wherver they find a better job.
So, I feel this attemtp by M$ will not help M$ as much as it will help the cause of development of a common indian
Hi,
Well that is just another company destroyed by M$. The list is quit long, most recent bieng netscape, real, winzip....
Sachin Garg [India]
http://sachingarg.cjb.net
http://sachingarg.go.to
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Competition does results in more 'innovation' from everyone.
Google made MS 'innovate', MS made Google 'innovate'.
Why should truly better technology need UN. If it is really better and has clear advantages, people will use it anyway (and if it is not, someone from UN saying something can't help it).
Open standards are better, but "maturity" of tools (ease of use) has its own importance.
MS - time to face it, almost noone apart from you is making alot of money selling proprietary sofware (alone). The real cash is in services, services, services.
Isn't this bad news for the brilliant developers who can write excellent products which can solve real problems and that are so good (or small) that they don't need paid support?
btw, I think there are still enough software vendors making enough money with proprietary software too. Open source and proprietary software can co-exist, they don't have to fight each other out.
I really fell in love with LXR when I used it to dig in Mozilla source code. It works really well for large code bases.
I can't say if this is the best because I havent looked at many other options, I just use MS VisualStudio for most of the development and it has nice browsing features.
Pencil and paper :-)
IMHO good software shouldn't need too much support. As a customer, I won't like a business model which promotes making software which will need even more paid support.
I would rather want them to be in a situation where support is a compulsory added cost to the vendor (maybe them charging for it slightly less than what it costs them), so that they are more hard pressed to improve the software.
Open Source is good. Support is good. But, an Open Source vendor with support as the *only* revenue stream? Not quite.
First, if you had such a tough time getting used to linux, even after all this effort, I am not sure if the trouble is with linux or somewhere else.
Now back to topic:
Open source is here to stay, but the open source *FAD* will die out.
Its not a silverbullet/snakeoil which can be used as excuse for writing shitty code which is not good enough for people to pay for it (which makes for majority of open source). But as a development model, it has its advantages which only a fool will ignore.
Its the business model part where I agree with you. The effort should be paid for. Open source is great and working for open source is cool, but...
What hurts is not getting paid for the effort. Or worse, seeing someone else profiting from your efforts without you getting a fair share. The whole "moral obligation" thing doesn't clicks with me. If coding is what I like doing, I want to make a living out of it.
I will, by all means, prefer to work for open-source. But not without being paid for the efforts. Here pay doesnt has to be money, it can be just the pleasure of watching people use what I coded. I guess this just depends on "how much effort". For something I did in a few weekends, releasing source would make sense, but for something which took months of hard work, I will expect more materialistic returns. If this makes me a bad guy, I would prefer being that.
I would have requested others also to stop working for free, but my guess is that not many people do that anyway.
ps. plz do not give "support" as an answer to money question. IMHO good software shouldn't need too much support. As a customer, I won't like a business model which promotes making software which will need more paid support.
Sachin Garg [India]
http://www.sachingarg.com/
It doesn't matters if a browser is free or not... as long as there are alternatives available.
The whole idea is that there is no lock-in. I can move to any platform, any machine, any hardware, any browser any time. And still everything will work the same for me (except for the few things which won't, but then almost all web-developers are carefull enough not to use things which will break their website on any browser).
Now with FireFox 'available', I won't mind using IE (if it has the right features to attract me as a user. A large majority of Firefox users use it because of features, not because its open source).
But I still pity the web-developers who have to ensure their websites work same with all browsers.
Ouch! I shouldn't have missed that part.
The first result for this search at google
.NET profile support)
http://www.google.co.in/search?q=amd+profiling
Gives this
AMD CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer for Windows
(With Microsoft
http://developer.amd.com/cawin.aspx
And this tool is around since atleast as long as when I first heard about "A company not called Intel which makes processors".
Seriously, quit your job and look for one in Mc Donalds. Or maybe starbucks is more popular in US these days.
Whatever, pick any, just outsource your job to me.
The domain of video compression is so heavily patented that even simple things like methods to rescale frame size to fit screen are patented.
IMHO, its just a matter of time. Wait for any format to get popular, and patents will start showing up (I hope I am wrong).
Yes, but then how good is flic for todays applications.
Opensource/freeware doesnt means patent free.
AFAIK, there arn't any open-source patent-free standards for video codecs, fortunately we have better luck with image (PNG) and audio (FLAC) formats.
Besides MPEG-4, JPEG2000 is the only other "standard" option available for cutting edge video compression. JPEG2000 recently gained traction with digital cinema. But it will no longer be a surprise to see such patents come up for it within another 3-4 years. It has already had a near miss recently.
Disclaimer: Shameless self promotion, above text taken from this post at Data Compression News Blog: After JPEG, Now Patent Threat to MPEG-4
I really don't see your point here.
Another post by same guy describing his first day at job (at google) was removed. And I couldnt find any post on any of the "google employee blogs" describing their office experiences or anything which confirms the much hyped google-culture. (Maybe it was just that I didn't came across it, please point me to it if you come across one).
I am just not sure if they walk-the-talk. I hope they do, but I still don't understand the silence. Why are they so worried if they do what they say.
Oh, and by the way, That guy was fired. His blog (99zeros) which was started with the aim of writting about his life at google, was then labeled "life after google" and now redirects to his new blog.
At last a company is shouting at the top of it's voice, engineers make the world.
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this reminds me of when steve balmer made his famous developers speech... "developers developers developers developers...
Seems to me like they are ONLY saying it out loud to attract best talent, I am not sure how much they actually follow what they say (I mean BOTH google and MS).
Its also a bit surprising how google talks a lot about google-culture but we hardly read about any first person account by an employee. Has NONE of their employees ever blogged about how their first month at google was (Or is it just me who couldnt find that)? I find that hard to digest, unless their is some policy restricting them.
Try this google search http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=google+emp
Just my 2 qubits
They have already been challaged by many, but for the first time someone has a concrete case with 'prior art'. You can read more on this at The Data Compression News Blog
White Knight Charges Forgent http://www.c10n.info/archives/246
[Disclaimer: Shameless self promotion]
Most open-source "companies" are support companies only, not product companies.
btw, a sure sign of maturity would have been products which need less support.
"Why when the press was being stomped before, did governments-- those people in *charge* of protecting rights-- never do this? Why is it that because we have a web-related buzzword, governments finally get with their societal obligations?"
Probably because "irresponsible" governements never listen unless they have to.
A part of the blame goes to citizens too.. for not speaking up loud enough... but that probably is because they didnt had the means to be loud enough... till now.
If likes of Google, Yahoo and MS stop helping the "suppressive governments", maybe this "means" will live long enough to make a difference. But hey... just like its all about votes for the government (assuming democracy)... its all about money for these guys (no assumptions needed here)...
I find it strange why almost everything which says "Open source is good" or says "google is god" gets a slashdot mention.
I think slashdot moderators *seriously* need to be more unbiased.
I dont think any DRM solution can make much of a difference. There are softwares available which, don't do the decryption themselves, and instead patch OS or iTunes/Winamp/WinMediaPlayer/etc... to output the decrypted stream to disk instead of the sound card. There are also softwares available which just redirect anything sent to soundcard to disk. These can be used to record internet radio as non-DRM-protected files. Checkout this another post at The Data Compression News Blog http://www.c10n.info/archives/55 Sachin Garg [India] http://www.sachingarg.com/
A large part of my coding and designing time is spent refactoring the code and I have been trying to find a good tool since forever.
I have tried Borland's Together but would love to see something cheaper and more "integrable" into popular IDEs.
I feel pretty same as you do.
I also feel that my company is earning a lot due to me and what I get as my pay/stocks is nothing compared to their share.
Should I start my own company or only try to rise up the corporate ladder.
http://sachingarg.go.to
In India, mass IT awarness came at about the same time as Linux , so almost all new enterants are as much aware of linux as of MS and are making intelligent choices while choosing to learn.
Also, popularity of the OS will not depend on what Developers have learned, but on what the industry demands. Developers will just go wherver they find a better job.
So, I feel this attemtp by M$ will not help M$ as much as it will help the cause of development of a common indian
SachinGarg [India]
http://sachingarg.go.to
Hi, Well that is just another company destroyed by M$. The list is quit long, most recent bieng netscape, real, winzip ....
Sachin Garg [India]
http://sachingarg.cjb.net
http://sachingarg.go.to