Relaize how much OSS is used in commercial software already.
IBM Web Server is Apache.
Most commercial Java apps have over 50% OSS code in imported libraries.
My wife had open heart sugery a couple of years ago. It went amazingly well (wonders of modern medicine).
We were told of the inherent risks of a heart / lung bypass machine. It seems that a pretty good portion of people that go on it suffer some permanent, albeit minor, loss of mental capacity, usually associated with memory. It is not the normal side effects that follow a general anesthetic, which can have the same effect, only temporary.
One of the working theories on this was that a heart / lung bypass machine does not "pluse", but just "whirrs along" without any ac/decelleration of blood flow. It is is thought that the natural pulse helps keep blood from sticking to the sides of the vessels or some such related information.
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Relaize how much OSS is used in commercial software already. IBM Web Server is Apache. Most commercial Java apps have over 50% OSS code in imported libraries.
My wife had open heart sugery a couple of years ago. It went amazingly well (wonders of modern medicine).
We were told of the inherent risks of a heart / lung bypass machine. It seems that a pretty good portion of people that go on it suffer some permanent, albeit minor, loss of mental capacity, usually associated with memory. It is not the normal side effects that follow a general anesthetic, which can have the same effect, only temporary.
One of the working theories on this was that a heart / lung bypass machine does not "pluse", but just "whirrs along" without any ac/decelleration of blood flow. It is is thought that the natural pulse helps keep blood from sticking to the sides of the vessels or some such related information.