If this deal goes down then more power to Microsoft. This is only software. Both Rational and Borland are running businesses, with the object of making money.
Isreal == Terrorists
They steal someone elses country and their the victims? Apart from the US and UK everyone is against Isreals acts of government terrorism.
The main problem with open source is and always will be that its created by programmers for programmers. Thats when closed source has the advantage. They are paid to make sure that the user understands the software. Apart from ego what incentive does an open source programmer have?
Open source licenses like GPL give freedom to the program by keeping it open. People don't gain anything, most barely know what code is. Developers can no longer re-sell code, whos going to want to buy it when they can already see it.
So whos this helping?
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God cannot be disproved but religion certainly can.
I thought Microsofts products were supposed to be to expensive?
It makes sense that india is the future of the technology industry, after all its the biggest democracy in the world.
If this deal goes down then more power to Microsoft. This is only software. Both Rational and Borland are running businesses, with the object of making money.
Isreal == Terrorists They steal someone elses country and their the victims? Apart from the US and UK everyone is against Isreals acts of government terrorism.
The main problem with open source is and always will be that its created by programmers for programmers. Thats when closed source has the advantage. They are paid to make sure that the user understands the software. Apart from ego what incentive does an open source programmer have?
Simple answer...NO
Open source licenses like GPL give freedom to the program by keeping it open. People don't gain anything, most barely know what code is. Developers can no longer re-sell code, whos going to want to buy it when they can already see it. So whos this helping?