Brooks said it took some time to convince Disney attorneys that he wanted to pay for the development of the porting solution but did not want to own it. However, Disney's legal department has developed a policy that enables Disney to protect its intellectual property while keeping within the statutes of the GNU General Public License, he said
IANAL but I'd love to have the details of that policy. This is the sort of balance required for open source to succeed in a commercial or proprietary environment - which is pretty much every "enterprise" out there. Hopefully other companies will see that Disney has made this work and muster up the courage to wet their feet in OSS.
My first programming job was inhouse database apps in QBX, the compiled version of quickbasic, which was actually pretty robust. Almost no bugs and very fast. We wrote a few subroutines in C/C++ and assembly that had to be quick or access the BIOS. QBX generated plain old object code files that could be linked to anything and made it very friendly to a mixed language environemnt. IIRC the database library we used with it was called DBLib and gave us direct access to dBSASE DBF and NDX files.
Since we ran on DOS I wrote a character-mode UI in QBX that worked quite well, previous to that it was all sequences of INPUT statements. Our users (employees) were ecstatic to be able to GO BACK and change something..
Never heard of it before - found a fast mirror, grabbed a copy and BOOM it's up! Lots of stuff preconfigured.. - this is a nice linux. Writting this from Mozilla in Knoppix 3.2 running under VMWare 3 (Knoppix booted & running straight from the ISO image file!) under Win2k on my work PC. Sweet.
I duplicated the search techniques on the listed sites for Delphi (but not Kylix, don't use it). The results: monster 158 hotjobs 64 dice 58 Avg: 93 That puts it well behind C# - already! Yikes.
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So that's what happened! (but don't tell the martian creationists)
IANAL but I'd love to have the details of that policy. This is the sort of balance required for open source to succeed in a commercial or proprietary environment - which is pretty much every "enterprise" out there. Hopefully other companies will see that Disney has made this work and muster up the courage to wet their feet in OSS.
Since we ran on DOS I wrote a character-mode UI in QBX that worked quite well, previous to that it was all sequences of INPUT statements. Our users (employees) were ecstatic to be able to GO BACK and change something..
Still, glad I'll never have to do that again. more info on QBX
Never heard of it before - found a fast mirror, grabbed a copy and BOOM it's up! Lots of stuff preconfigured.. - this is a nice linux. Writting this from Mozilla in Knoppix 3.2 running under VMWare 3 (Knoppix booted & running straight from the ISO image file!) under Win2k on my work PC. Sweet.
I duplicated the search techniques on the listed sites for Delphi (but not Kylix, don't use it). The results:
monster 158
hotjobs 64
dice 58
Avg: 93
That puts it well behind C# - already! Yikes.