Wonderful to see this rare bit of sobriety. Both capitalism and socialism have their problems -- the problem with the former is greed, which Calvinist Adam Smith well understood. The problem with Socialism is resentment, which Marx and Lenin also understood, and exploited to their own means, and which is also one of the roots of Anti-American sentiment.
At any rate, I humbly suggest that "It's anti-American!" might not be the best marketing slogan for OSS.
Thanks again for some clear-headedness.
I will give programmers their due, and I work with some good ones. However the real world infrastructure clue train hasn't made a stop by most of the programmers I know. Perhaps it's just because I work for a company that doesn't pay well enough to get good ones, but most of our programmers have a set of common assumptions regarding infrastructure where their apps are supposed to run:
Available Processor Speed = f
Available Processor Cycles = f
Available Ram = f
Available Disk Space = f
Available Bandwidth = f
Latency = 0
Infrastructure cost = 0 or someone else's money
In case it didn't display properly on the first five items, the character to the right of the first five equal signs is an 8 turned on its side, or infinity.
-- Dex
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Wonderful to see this rare bit of sobriety. Both capitalism and socialism have their problems -- the problem with the former is greed, which Calvinist Adam Smith well understood. The problem with Socialism is resentment, which Marx and Lenin also understood, and exploited to their own means, and which is also one of the roots of Anti-American sentiment. At any rate, I humbly suggest that "It's anti-American!" might not be the best marketing slogan for OSS. Thanks again for some clear-headedness.
I will give programmers their due, and I work with some good ones. However the real world infrastructure clue train hasn't made a stop by most of the programmers I know. Perhaps it's just because I work for a company that doesn't pay well enough to get good ones, but most of our programmers have a set of common assumptions regarding infrastructure where their apps are supposed to run: Available Processor Speed = f Available Processor Cycles = f Available Ram = f Available Disk Space = f Available Bandwidth = f Latency = 0 Infrastructure cost = 0 or someone else's money In case it didn't display properly on the first five items, the character to the right of the first five equal signs is an 8 turned on its side, or infinity. -- Dex