It's not the cost of the ms software licenses, but the cost of antivirus software required on every MS system! Tell me you aren't required to update that regularly!
Because it [idea] is not property. Sharing an idea does not reduce it, as does a piece of land or a box of chocolates. Ideas belong to the creator until they are revealed in any form. Then they belong to the world. However, to offer encouragment for you to share your idea, we (the people) have granted an artificial monopoly over that idea for a limited time. Intellectual Property is a misnomer. Ideas never were, are not, and never will be property, though some might attempt to have the law view them as such. Presently, though the law gives FAR too much license to the copyright holder, ideas are still not property under the law.
There are a number of projects that have been released under qpl-like licenses; the most notable being php4. php4 relies on zend, which is licensed under the qpl. Zend is the only engine for php4, so php4 is essentially qpl-derived. Note that you can get debian pakages for php4 from the unstable list at debian.org (but not kde packages).
I wonder how this compares to the samsung/G.mate yopy that runs linux, has colors, and is expandable? Is it out yet? Anyone have one? Would there be cross-platform apps between helio and yopy?
If tech workers were paid by the hour (w/overtime & holiday pay) the numbers would be very different. For that matter, if employers reported their tech workers hours honestly they would fear the government would have to step in. It is one thing for corporate officers and business owners to put in vast hours--their pay is tied directly to results. Salaried tech workers, OTOH, are increasing productivity by putting in more hours, as much as by improving efficiency. There was a time when tech workers were on-call - you could add about 5% to the number of hours they were in the office based on this. Then came pagers and modems and that number went up to 10%. Now we have cell phones, high speed access, and non-tech employees accessing work during off-hours(and requiring support from tech workers). Add another 10%. So before we even look at the increase in hours logged for being at work, we are looking at a 25% increase in the number of hours worked by technical folks over the last 15 years.
Fetchmail participation is limited because the tool is limited in what it does, and because it has worked quite well for a long time. I use fetchmail; never seen any bugs worth complaining about; never wanted any features enough to act upon. It works. I'm happy with it and have been since I first used it. I'm delighted to discover new features in fetchmail when they appear, or when I browse the documentation, but I don't join the lists to keep track of improvements. Not all opensource projects require huge development communities, and many contributors don't bother with mailing lists -- they just submit a fix when they find a bug and shrug if it doesn't get incorporated into the code base.
The movie was scary (frightening) for a large number of viewers. Perhaps Katz doesn't find it so, but many others do. The movie had the biggest per screen opening in film history, beating out (again, per screen) Jurassic Park and Titanic. For between $10k - $100k invested, depending on who you quote, that's even better than buying rh stock!
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It's not the cost of the ms software licenses, but the cost of antivirus software required on every MS system! Tell me you aren't required to update that regularly!
Heh. They fooled ya.
Because it [idea] is not property. Sharing an idea does not reduce it, as does a piece of land or a box of chocolates. Ideas belong to the creator until they are revealed in any form. Then they belong to the world. However, to offer encouragment for you to share your idea, we (the people) have granted an artificial monopoly over that idea for a limited time. Intellectual Property is a misnomer. Ideas never were, are not, and never will be property, though some might attempt to have the law view them as such. Presently, though the law gives FAR too much license to the copyright holder, ideas are still not property under the law.
There are a number of projects that have been released under qpl-like licenses; the most notable being php4. php4 relies on zend, which is licensed under the qpl. Zend is the only engine for php4, so php4 is essentially qpl-derived. Note that you can get debian pakages for php4 from the unstable list at debian.org (but not kde packages).
I wonder how this compares to the samsung/G.mate yopy that runs linux, has colors, and is expandable? Is it out yet? Anyone have one? Would there be cross-platform apps between helio and yopy?
Boycott.
The fact that Bezos has ignored thousands of interested parites but deigns to speak to the publisher of very hot selling titles is quite revealing.
The fact that he'd use O'Reilly as a mouthpiece instead of agreeing to issue his own response tells me he is using O'Reilly, not learning from him.
This wasn't a dialogue--it was damage control.
Amazon isn't netscape.
They're a dime-a-dozen online store that happened to get in early and drive their stock price to ridiculous levels.
They want to be the Microsoft of online retailing and they're using Microsoft tactics.
If tech workers were paid by the hour (w/overtime & holiday pay) the numbers would be very different. For that matter, if employers reported their tech workers hours honestly they would fear the government would have to step in. It is one thing for corporate officers and business owners to put in vast hours--their pay is tied directly to results. Salaried tech workers, OTOH, are increasing productivity by putting in more hours, as much as by improving efficiency. There was a time when tech workers were on-call - you could add about 5% to the number of hours they were in the office based on this. Then came pagers and modems and that number went up to 10%. Now we have cell phones, high speed access, and non-tech employees accessing work during off-hours(and requiring support from tech workers). Add another 10%. So before we even look at the increase in hours logged for being at work, we are looking at a 25% increase in the number of hours worked by technical folks over the last 15 years.
Lord what we who fear & have fought with termites would give for a bugbot that ate the little homewreckers!
Fetchmail participation is limited because the tool is limited in what it does, and because it has worked quite well for a long time. I use fetchmail; never seen any bugs worth complaining about; never wanted any features enough to act upon. It works. I'm happy with it and have been since I first used it. I'm delighted to discover new features in fetchmail when they appear, or when I browse the documentation, but I don't join the lists to keep track of improvements. Not all opensource projects require huge development communities, and many contributors don't bother with mailing lists -- they just submit a fix when they find a bug and shrug if it doesn't get incorporated into the code base.
The movie was scary (frightening) for a large number of viewers. Perhaps Katz doesn't find it so, but many others do. The movie had the biggest per screen opening in film history, beating out (again, per screen) Jurassic Park and Titanic. For between $10k - $100k invested, depending on who you quote, that's even better than buying rh stock!