I have no problem believing that european companies abused the oil for food program. I would be surprised if there weren't any US companies also involved. Money talks... Furthermore I would be truly surprised if the US/Europeans did not know what a madman Saddam was even in the 80's when he was their 'best friend'.
Btw! Did you know that during the WW2 the nazis bought a lot of critical war supplies from the allied countries acting through intermediates. That included many US companies, even during the time that US was fighting the nazis. The same companies even provided material for both sides. Some estimate that war was prolonged by atleast a year by the selling of critical supplies to the nazis by allied companies. A bit of topic, but history seems to repeat itself.
Yes. Shame on you. Please read your OSS red book page 1, chapter:
- Fact 1: Microsoft is evil - Fact 2: OSS is good - Fact 3: Linux is good - Fact 4: All companies, people, etc who use, promote OSS or linux are by defination good. - Fact 5: Don't forget, Microsoft is evil.
Who sold Saddam the factories and know-how to build WMD:s in the 1980:s, which he propomply used to gas the kurds and iranians. From what I have read, it was US companies (no doubt helped by europeans) that did it. Few of the 'hawks' of the current 'administration' are supposed to have been very active on it too. I guess that is why they were so sure on WMD's, they would know...
I will propably get flamed out of my asbesto pants, but still...
I question what is that MS is doing, that others are not doing, attempting to do or atleast want to do, if they had a half a chance.
MS, like any other market driven company, has one goal and that is to make money for the shareholders. The fact that they have been so good about it is the 'problem'. 99% of these companies that have thrown their weight behind open source, do it because they believe it will give them edge. However given the chance to have a MS like position in the market, they would drop their 'pro open source' stance faster than you could say 'NASDAQ'.
I could not agree more (or less). Though, I would have to point out that, while schools could do more about this subject, in the end it comes down to the person behind the keyboard.
I manage a department, which includes about 20 programmers and some do it right from the start (and right out of a school), and some don't.
What is interesting, while not maybe surprising, is that women tend to document their code better and also write more maintainable code. This observation is prone to errors (most of the programmers are guys in my dep.), but still.
There seems to be also a correlation with the talent. The better programmers usually grasp the idea of writing generic and maintainable code faster. Perhaps that is because they have to fix other peoples code.
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I have no problem believing that european companies abused the oil for food program. I would be surprised if there weren't any US companies also involved. Money talks... Furthermore I would be truly surprised if the US/Europeans did not know what a madman Saddam was even in the 80's when he was their 'best friend'.
Btw! Did you know that during the WW2 the nazis bought a lot of critical war supplies from the allied countries acting through intermediates. That included many US companies, even during the time that US was fighting the nazis. The same companies even provided material for both sides.
Some estimate that war was prolonged by atleast a year by the selling of critical supplies to the nazis by allied companies. A bit of topic, but history seems to repeat itself.
Yes. Shame on you. Please read your OSS red book page 1, chapter :
- Fact 1: Microsoft is evil
- Fact 2: OSS is good
- Fact 3: Linux is good
- Fact 4: All companies, people, etc who use, promote OSS or linux are by defination good.
- Fact 5: Don't forget, Microsoft is evil.
Who sold Saddam the factories and know-how to build WMD:s in the 1980:s, which he propomply used to gas the kurds and iranians. From what I have read, it was US companies (no doubt helped by europeans) that did it. Few of the 'hawks' of the current 'administration' are supposed to have been very active on it too. I guess that is why they were so sure on WMD's, they would know...
I will propably get flamed out of my asbesto pants, but still...
I question what is that MS is doing, that others are not doing, attempting to do or atleast want to do, if they had a half a chance.
MS, like any other market driven company, has one goal and that is to make money for the shareholders. The fact that they have been so good about it is the 'problem'. 99% of these companies that have thrown their weight behind open source, do it because they believe it will give them edge. However given the chance to have a MS like position in the market, they would drop their 'pro open source' stance faster than you could say 'NASDAQ'.
I could not agree more (or less). Though, I would have to point out that, while schools could do more about this subject, in the end it comes down to the person behind the keyboard.
I manage a department, which includes about 20 programmers and some do it right from the start (and right out of a school), and some don't.
What is interesting, while not maybe surprising, is that women tend to document their code better and also write more maintainable code. This observation is prone to errors (most of the programmers are guys in my dep.), but still.
There seems to be also a correlation with the talent. The better programmers usually grasp the idea of writing generic and maintainable code faster. Perhaps that is because they have to fix other peoples code.
My two and half cents.