Only very large companies or governments undertake very large projects and ironically they are the least capable of carrying them out. Why?
Very large companies don't pay very well. They treat programmers as cogs in a gear and try to make them as easy to replace as possible
Very large companies don't hand out raises and bonuses very often. People are usually given a COLA raise once a year and that's it. There is no incentive to excel.
very large companies have complex beurocracies where the operations people rarely interact with the programmers. In many companies the programmers themselves don't interact with each other either unless they are on the same team
Very large companies have CIO's who are MBAs.
very large companies are bogged down with politics. Every action is designed to one up somebody or stab somebody in the back. Nobody really cares about the project, everybody cares about getting ahead
If you want a large project to succeed maybe the best thing to do is to outsource it to a small, functional team that's outside your companies politics and petty bickering.
"Hence serving to unify the people and enhance a sense of nation, which is why they are just about the only cultural group of that period to have survived to the modern day."
Get off it man. Are you seriously arguing the jews are the oldest culture on the planet?
I disagree with the premise of your post. When making purchasing decision you should always take ethical considerations into account. As consumers we can shape the world in the way taht we buy our sutff.
I don't shop at wallmart, I don't buy MS products for the exact same reason. I want to make the world a better place, I want to reduce the amount of evil in the world.
So I encourage everybody to stop buying and using MS products and start using cometing products even if the competing products are inferior. It's a little sacrifice on your part but you are making the world a better place and not rewarding unethical sleazy companies.
Until we stop rewarding MS for their monsterous behavior they will keep doing it. The DOJ hasn't punished them but that doesn't mean we can't.
Sun doesn't want linux to benefit from any solaris technology. They would have never made their license BSDL for that reason. Ironically due to the way the license is written neither can freebsd.
Maybe that's what's wrong with the BSD license. Sun took BSD code, added stuff to it and now makes it impossible for BSD to gain any benefit.
The fact that the sun licence is carefully crafted so as not to allow solaris code to be included in any GPLed program pretty much shows exactly how much of a hand MS had in this license.
I am not saying they don't have the right to do it, it's their code and they can do whatever they want with it but it smells like a trap to me.
I think they are hoping some linux programmer will look at the code and then implement something in linux that does something similar at which point either Sun, MS or some other entity sponsored by one of them will pounce.
" Yeah, but to be fundamentalist they'd have to agree on a set of fundamental christian principles. "
And they do. That's why gays can't get married or serve in the military even though scientifically they are human beings and should have the same rights as other human beings.
"Given the state of the church in the US"
90+% of americans believe in god. 70+% of americans go to church regularly.
Of course if everybody who called themselves christians actually acted like christians there would be no poverty in the US but that's another topic.
There is no such thing as a "site license" from MS. Corporations join select programs which give them discounts based on the volume buy you still have to pay for each item separately.
" most coutries you wouldn't get a trail at all, you would never have a recourse at all."
Most countries? Have you ever been outside the US? Most countries have excellent legal systems. Not everyplace outside the US is a third world shithole you seem to think it is.
"what the hell does that mean?"
In the US if you get jailed for any crime you will get raped and the jail officials won't do anything about it. In the US every sentence also includes a bonus rape punishment. That's what it means.
The American legal system is a joke. Everybody knows that by now. This case, the SCO case, OJ, Condit, it goes on and on.
In what other country does every sentense also include rape? In what other country does a company like SCO go two years into a case without showing one single piece of evidence?
One of the greatest harms 9/11 did was to add "friction" to the economy. Companies now have to pay more to hire people (background checking), take less risks, buy more insurance etc. Of course companies in other parts of the world are already doing all that so this kind of leveled the playing field a bit.
Patents add another layer of friction to the US economy. What this means is that in countries where patent lawsuits are discouraged and where patent litigation is less profitable will enjoy a competitive advantage.
Now intel has 141 million less to spend on R&D, marketing, or manufacturing (or buying one of their board members an airplane). This might help AMD, this might help some manufacturer in another part of the world even more.
Really? 0% of the congress is atheist, 0% are scientists. The president is a religious fundamentalist and so all all of his close advisors.
So I would say we have something pretty close to a theocracy. 100% of congress and white house are either christians or jews (jews being a tiny percentage).
I heard one of the talking heads on tv say that the war against terrorism was the war of modernity against religious fundamentalism. I thought to myself "wouldn't that be cool if it was true".
Of course it's not true. It's the war of christian fundamentalists against islamic fundamentalists.
Anyway it's not that christians are responsible for global warming, it's that they elect politicians who do cause global warming.
"It doesn't matter who comes first or what was created first. People have the Freedom to use any license they want. Why are you interested in forcing others to be compatible with your GPL? Do you believe in Freedom? Do you understand Freedom?"
Of course sun has the right to whatever it wants. I still want to know why they chose to exclude the GPL though.
Maybe the situation is changing. This certainly sounds like somebody over there is thinking about things.
Actually open source makes more sense if you don't have enough tech people. Statistics show that the average unix sysadmin maintains more servers then your typical windows admin and that a typical unix server serves more applications then a typical windows server.
Well since the FSF folks were here first you'd think that sun would make their license compatible. But they worked very very hard to make sure that it was not compatible.
Why? That's the question that needs to be answered. If sun actually intended this code base to be free why are they excluding the GPL on purpose? DO they actually see any harm (if so what) or is this just something MS asked for and got?
I agree with you that this is a poison pill for the linux community.
However in a way they hurt their case with IBM. They sold IP to sun for 9.3 million dollars and now it's all open source. How can they claim 5 billion dollars in damages?
I am pretty sure the lawyers at sun didn't miss a thing like that. This license was carefully crafted to undermine linux (thank you sun and ms!).
The idea is to create an alternative open source platform which would take developers and users away from linux. That's why it was crafted carefully so as not allow any code to flow to flow from solaris to linux or freebsd.
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"U.S. citizens, it's 7 PM. Do you know what your government is doing?"
Killing iraqis of course. Oh and running covert ops in iran in preperation for killing iranians too. We are also killing some afghanis for sure.
But really the most important thing my govt is doing is preventing gays from getting married and making sure nobody smokes dope.
If you want a large project to succeed maybe the best thing to do is to outsource it to a small, functional team that's outside your companies politics and petty bickering.
What about the chinese, mongols, hindus, most of african nations etc.
BTW you also don't see jews buring the red heffer when see a naked woman either.
I hope you can forgive us being suspicious. They have a history of being sleazy.
I for one wouldn't trust anybody who works at MS to babysit my kids let alone give away their weapon.
"Hence serving to unify the people and enhance a sense of nation, which is why they are just about the only cultural group of that period to have survived to the modern day."
Get off it man. Are you seriously arguing the jews are the oldest culture on the planet?
I disagree with the premise of your post. When making purchasing decision you should always take ethical considerations into account. As consumers we can shape the world in the way taht we buy our sutff.
I don't shop at wallmart, I don't buy MS products for the exact same reason. I want to make the world a better place, I want to reduce the amount of evil in the world.
So I encourage everybody to stop buying and using MS products and start using cometing products even if the competing products are inferior. It's a little sacrifice on your part but you are making the world a better place and not rewarding unethical sleazy companies.
Until we stop rewarding MS for their monsterous behavior they will keep doing it. The DOJ hasn't punished them but that doesn't mean we can't.
Because it was cheaper then disposing it legally and they get a tax break at the same time.
Sun doesn't want linux to benefit from any solaris technology. They would have never made their license BSDL for that reason. Ironically due to the way the license is written neither can freebsd.
Maybe that's what's wrong with the BSD license. Sun took BSD code, added stuff to it and now makes it impossible for BSD to gain any benefit.
The fact that the sun licence is carefully crafted so as not to allow solaris code to be included in any GPLed program pretty much shows exactly how much of a hand MS had in this license.
I am not saying they don't have the right to do it, it's their code and they can do whatever they want with it but it smells like a trap to me.
I think they are hoping some linux programmer will look at the code and then implement something in linux that does something similar at which point either Sun, MS or some other entity sponsored by one of them will pounce.
" Yeah, but to be fundamentalist they'd have to agree on a set of fundamental christian principles. "
And they do. That's why gays can't get married or serve in the military even though scientifically they are human beings and should have the same rights as other human beings.
"Given the state of the church in the US"
90+% of americans believe in god. 70+% of americans go to church regularly.
Of course if everybody who called themselves christians actually acted like christians there would be no poverty in the US but that's another topic.
Maybe the numbers show that crime does pay.
Maybe the numbers show that there is no competition and that MS is indeed a monopoly that should be broken up.
Maybe the numbers show that MS is cutting R&D like crazy.
Maybe the numbers show that accountants need to have fun too.
There is no such thing as a "site license" from MS. Corporations join select programs which give them discounts based on the volume buy you still have to pay for each item separately.
" most coutries you wouldn't get a trail at all, you would never have a recourse at all."
Most countries? Have you ever been outside the US? Most countries have excellent legal systems. Not everyplace outside the US is a third world shithole you seem to think it is.
"what the hell does that mean?"
In the US if you get jailed for any crime you will get raped and the jail officials won't do anything about it. In the US every sentence also includes a bonus rape punishment. That's what it means.
The American legal system is a joke. Everybody knows that by now. This case, the SCO case, OJ, Condit, it goes on and on.
In what other country does every sentense also include rape? In what other country does a company like SCO go two years into a case without showing one single piece of evidence?
One of the greatest harms 9/11 did was to add "friction" to the economy. Companies now have to pay more to hire people (background checking), take less risks, buy more insurance etc. Of course companies in other parts of the world are already doing all that so this kind of leveled the playing field a bit.
Patents add another layer of friction to the US economy. What this means is that in countries where patent lawsuits are discouraged and where patent litigation is less profitable will enjoy a competitive advantage.
Now intel has 141 million less to spend on R&D, marketing, or manufacturing (or buying one of their board members an airplane). This might help AMD, this might help some manufacturer in another part of the world even more.
Really? 0% of the congress is atheist, 0% are scientists. The president is a religious fundamentalist and so all all of his close advisors.
So I would say we have something pretty close to a theocracy. 100% of congress and white house are either christians or jews (jews being a tiny percentage).
I heard one of the talking heads on tv say that the war against terrorism was the war of modernity against religious fundamentalism.
I thought to myself "wouldn't that be cool if it was true".
Of course it's not true. It's the war of christian fundamentalists against islamic fundamentalists.
Anyway it's not that christians are responsible for global warming, it's that they elect politicians who do cause global warming.
When the war starts people with guns will be choking from the gasses made by people with brains.
Insightful? Since when is repeating the republican party talking points insightful?
"It doesn't matter who comes first or what was created first. People have the Freedom to use any license they want. Why are you interested in forcing others to be compatible with your GPL? Do you believe in Freedom? Do you understand Freedom?"
Of course sun has the right to whatever it wants. I still want to know why they chose to exclude the GPL though.
Maybe the situation is changing. This certainly sounds like somebody over there is thinking about things.
Actually open source makes more sense if you don't have enough tech people. Statistics show that the average unix sysadmin maintains more servers then your typical windows admin and that a typical unix server serves more applications then a typical windows server.
Well since the FSF folks were here first you'd think that sun would make their license compatible. But they worked very very hard to make sure that it was not compatible.
Why? That's the question that needs to be answered. If sun actually intended this code base to be free why are they excluding the GPL on purpose? DO they actually see any harm (if so what) or is this just something MS asked for and got?
I agree with you that this is a poison pill for the linux community.
However in a way they hurt their case with IBM. They sold IP to sun for 9.3 million dollars and now it's all open source. How can they claim 5 billion dollars in damages?
I am pretty sure the lawyers at sun didn't miss a thing like that. This license was carefully crafted to undermine linux (thank you sun and ms!).
The idea is to create an alternative open source platform which would take developers and users away from linux. That's why it was crafted carefully so as not allow any code to flow to flow from solaris to linux or freebsd.
Why the OSF approved this license I don't know.
By paying 9.3 millions dollars to SCO sun has acknowledged that some code in solaris is owned by SCO.
SCO would be free to sue to any project that included code that came from solaris.