Yeah..everyone $old out. I must admit, a lot of hackers that I thought were hackers turned out to be a bunch of money hungry sell outs that simply go around lying about computer security to suck the dollars out of peopes pockets. Only real hackers are in open source.
"It's a stupidity because open source is by definition vendor neutral," he argued. "The whole point is that you do not have commercial people developing the code."
Exactly!
I don't get how someone can just have an idea, do nothing at all to try and make it work, give up, patent it, and then sue a company that actually built the idea and made it work?
someone should just patent woolstons consciousness already!
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Yeah..everyone $old out. I must admit, a lot of hackers that I thought were hackers turned out to be a bunch of money hungry sell outs that simply go around lying about computer security to suck the dollars out of peopes pockets. Only real hackers are in open source.
I just forwarded this article to a 15 year old, his reply... "grrrr...we'll still hack it!"
"It's a stupidity because open source is by definition vendor neutral," he argued. "The whole point is that you do not have commercial people developing the code." Exactly!
I don't get how someone can just have an idea, do nothing at all to try and make it work, give up, patent it, and then sue a company that actually built the idea and made it work? someone should just patent woolstons consciousness already!