You think the american people are the only ones that gave up our rights a little at a time, the terrorists that attacked took our freedom/rights on sept. 11th. the best one is the people that keep complaining about the excessive searching are the first ones to complain about the fact that most of those terrorists on the 11th didn't even belong in this country at the time. My personal thoughts, this country should be on lock down, we are fighting a war both abroad and at home, which should put us all on military lock down. I, as an american who lives in NYC, feel that I am willing to comply with the american government and any searching party, with reason of course, to any delay or search of my belongings. These attacks might have been done by foreign terrorists, but the last american terrorist attack was done by one of our own, MCVEIGH. Until the smoke clears, the safety is 99% ensured, we should all just put up w/ this and maybe even thank those that are doing such a good job trying to prevent the next terrorist in succeeding. Just my 2cents, you can either take it or toss em, the choice is yours.
a bit perplexed, doesn't it seem that GPL'ed software is at a disadvantage when we are talking about microsoft. They could easily dl gpl'ed software and import it/use it for there own benefit. And how would be know? What is the procedure in finding out if closed software has been abusing open software w/o acknowledging the
"giants that stood before them"? Do we have to wait till an ex-employee shares his insider secrets w/ the open source community?
read the "mythical man-month". Its a good book written by ex-IBMer about when you should invest more and when you should walk out. First off expect the project to take 1.5x the amount of time. Secondly, putting more people on the job is not always the best solution. This book explains on how that can actually put you behind because the new addons need time to catch up with the rest. I thought it was a good book, I give it 2 thumbs up and a phat toe.
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You think the american people are the only ones that gave up our rights a little at a time, the terrorists that attacked took our freedom/rights on sept. 11th. the best one is the people that keep complaining about the excessive searching are the first ones to complain about the fact that most of those terrorists on the 11th didn't even belong in this country at the time. My personal thoughts, this country should be on lock down, we are fighting a war both abroad and at home, which should put us all on military lock down. I, as an american who lives in NYC, feel that I am willing to comply with the american government and any searching party, with reason of course, to any delay or search of my belongings. These attacks might have been done by foreign terrorists, but the last american terrorist attack was done by one of our own, MCVEIGH. Until the smoke clears, the safety is 99% ensured, we should all just put up w/ this and maybe even thank those that are doing such a good job trying to prevent the next terrorist in succeeding. Just my 2cents, you can either take it or toss em, the choice is yours.
a bit perplexed, doesn't it seem that GPL'ed software is at a disadvantage when we are talking about microsoft. They could easily dl gpl'ed software and import it/use it for there own benefit. And how would be know? What is the procedure in finding out if closed software has been abusing open software w/o acknowledging the "giants that stood before them"? Do we have to wait till an ex-employee shares his insider secrets w/ the open source community?
read the "mythical man-month". Its a good book written by ex-IBMer about when you should invest more and when you should walk out. First off expect the project to take 1.5x the amount of time. Secondly, putting more people on the job is not always the best solution. This book explains on how that can actually put you behind because the new addons need time to catch up with the rest. I thought it was a good book, I give it 2 thumbs up and a phat toe.