You can't engineer it until you understand how to code it. All language are different and you really need to be an expert in the language you are designing for or your coders will think you are the world biggest moron.
ok...so you knew there was going to be one smart ass that would point at that water is indeed discreet countable units...H2O. What you were probably not counting on was the fact that it would be someone with the name 'chemistry'
Fine. You are a nut.
However if it makes you feel any better...I liked the default XP theme better than all the other...yeah yeah I know. I am a nut to.
Yeah...but they CHOOSE win2K That was there own bad desicion. MS is not at fault for not keeping win2k running for enternity for you. I agree that is a tough problem you are in...but it is not the fault of closed source software....why. because there was a free alternative that you (when I say you I mean the organization you work for) could have just as easily choose...did any one really believe that win2k would be around forever?
"However, when enough people have decided that they didn't care, then I also lose the option of choosing."
Welcome to the free market. No one said that a free market was guaranteed to give YOU what you want. Now if enough people decide to quite shopping at Wal Mart then the free market will side with you.
And yes the parent was totally right...you have the choice of buying something based on the licese...and no in this day and age you are not bound by restricted licences...if you are then why don't you create a competing product and see if you can persaude the market to you side?
You say lots of companies. Name 100. that's a pretty small number. Then out of those 100 name 10 that make money selling software and not service.
Like I always say. There is room for both open and closed software. Period. There are plenty of projects in the world that would not benifit one iota from being free. Somethings require money to do and people should be allowed to charge for them...patents on the other hand I take serious issue with.
Of course these are only my worthless opinions.
Freedom as defined by RMS means that the end user is granted the same freedom as the creator. With the BSD license this is not the case. Company X (ahem..apple) can take the source code make kickass changes to it...shrink wrap it and then sell it without giving anything back to the BSD community. With the GPL this is not the case....you are given certain rights, but you are not allowed to take away those right s from others.
I personally think the wold is big enough for open, closed and BSD all together. Just my two cents worth.
And you are missing the point as well. It matters a lot to companies the produce IP sensitive information. I work for a pharmaceutical company and we have off shore operations....but none of our IP sensitive information goes. Likewise I also own a software company and non of my internally sensitive information goes to outside programmers.
So yeah I would say I have quite a clue as to what I am saying. Oh and yes if India keeps this up it will be bad for their business.
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You can't engineer it until you understand how to code it. All language are different and you really need to be an expert in the language you are designing for or your coders will think you are the world biggest moron.
ok...so you knew there was going to be one smart ass that would point at that water is indeed discreet countable units...H2O. What you were probably not counting on was the fact that it would be someone with the name 'chemistry'
Fine. You are a nut. However if it makes you feel any better...I liked the default XP theme better than all the other...yeah yeah I know. I am a nut to.
Naw. win98 was the train wreck...ME was the aftermath.
Yeah...but they CHOOSE win2K That was there own bad desicion. MS is not at fault for not keeping win2k running for enternity for you. I agree that is a tough problem you are in...but it is not the fault of closed source software....why. because there was a free alternative that you (when I say you I mean the organization you work for) could have just as easily choose...did any one really believe that win2k would be around forever?
"However, when enough people have decided that they didn't care, then I also lose the option of choosing." Welcome to the free market. No one said that a free market was guaranteed to give YOU what you want. Now if enough people decide to quite shopping at Wal Mart then the free market will side with you. And yes the parent was totally right...you have the choice of buying something based on the licese...and no in this day and age you are not bound by restricted licences...if you are then why don't you create a competing product and see if you can persaude the market to you side?
You say lots of companies. Name 100. that's a pretty small number. Then out of those 100 name 10 that make money selling software and not service. Like I always say. There is room for both open and closed software. Period. There are plenty of projects in the world that would not benifit one iota from being free. Somethings require money to do and people should be allowed to charge for them...patents on the other hand I take serious issue with. Of course these are only my worthless opinions.
Freedom as defined by RMS means that the end user is granted the same freedom as the creator. With the BSD license this is not the case. Company X (ahem..apple) can take the source code make kickass changes to it...shrink wrap it and then sell it without giving anything back to the BSD community. With the GPL this is not the case....you are given certain rights, but you are not allowed to take away those right s from others.
I personally think the wold is big enough for open, closed and BSD all together. Just my two cents worth.
And you are missing the point as well. It matters a lot to companies the produce IP sensitive information. I work for a pharmaceutical company and we have off shore operations....but none of our IP sensitive information goes. Likewise I also own a software company and non of my internally sensitive information goes to outside programmers. So yeah I would say I have quite a clue as to what I am saying. Oh and yes if India keeps this up it will be bad for their business.
Actually there is a pretty blatant link. What company would outsource IP intensive information to a counrty that doen't uphold IP laws?
just checking