Cool, now instead of my wife infecting her machine with stupid clicks, she could infect EVERYONES!! Of course, no one would write any malware targeting Google!
If MS had not patented it and tried to provide it some other company like Eolas would patent it and then sue MS. The patent system is so screwed up that companies have to patent even stupid things like this to avoid being sued.
Everybody wins except the developers who write database software, developement tools, operating systems, etc. If I wrote an open-source implementation of the core software in your company, and you lost your job because eveyone could get the same functionality for free, would you have won? Look at the job market for developers, we are giving away our jobs. Outsourcing is due to cost. When we argue that software should be free and low cost, the finacial analysts see that they should get anything as cheap as they could. We developers lose our jobs.
If a company started making a free car and the best and brightest minds at the other companies helped them build it, and then they stopped buying cars themselves, what would happed to the auto industries?
Same thing that is happening to our industry.
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Cool, now instead of my wife infecting her machine with stupid clicks, she could infect EVERYONES!! Of course, no one would write any malware targeting Google!
If MS had not patented it and tried to provide it some other company like Eolas would patent it and then sue MS. The patent system is so screwed up that companies have to patent even stupid things like this to avoid being sued.
Everybody wins except the developers who write database software, developement tools, operating systems, etc. If I wrote an open-source implementation of the core software in your company, and you lost your job because eveyone could get the same functionality for free, would you have won? Look at the job market for developers, we are giving away our jobs. Outsourcing is due to cost. When we argue that software should be free and low cost, the finacial analysts see that they should get anything as cheap as they could. We developers lose our jobs.
If a company started making a free car and the best and brightest minds at the other companies helped them build it, and then they stopped buying cars themselves, what would happed to the auto industries?
Same thing that is happening to our industry.