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rbanffy
194,611karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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This looks fairly obvious to me. And mind you I haven't really been an engineer for at least 10 years.
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If a marketer or manager thrives in such an environment, there is a good chance they are mediocre at best. Creative people keep banging against the limits corporate rules impose on them. Those who don…
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Thanks. Next time I have to debate with a crazy libertarian that quotes the Mises folks, I will use these.
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"treated badly" does not even approximate the meaning of "indentured servitude". Having slaves is unforgivable. Oddly enough, isn't the UEA in the Human Rights Commission that wanted to ban free spee…
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ARM is so small Intel could license ARM's IP and build an ARM core inside an Atom processor, sacrificing a tiny little bit of the cache memory. If the ARM core could use some logic on the Atom side, t…
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Not as an internet server, but many companies can't get rid of x86 Windows servers because they have (better: think they have) to run Windows applications like Exchange or SQL Server.
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I will be delighted if Sun survives at all. Still, I would love even more if Sun summons the will to bring back the desktop Unix workstation. The x86 world we live in is lethally boring.
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And still we look around and all but one OS we use today are Unix-like operating systems... And the one that's not is a security nightmare sending almost all the spam and running each every botnet in …
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It would be a shame. I prefer NetBeans for doing server-side Java. But I prefer almost anything to server-side Java ;-)
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Sun should have built affordable Mac mini-like SPARC T1 or T2 desktops to foster multi-threaded application development they were uniquely well positioned to take advantage of. Almost nobody will buy …
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The only reason I would consider building something for ASP.NET is an overwhelmingly huge legacy codebase I would have to rewrite for something more modern like Rails or Django. Or something really co…
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I am quite sure a guy named Rick Belluzzo was behind the wheel when most of the stupid decisions that killed the company were made. Later he got a comfy job at MS. Go figure...
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While they are certainly a shadow of their former glory, remember what day this is. I will take such news with a grain of salt.
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I think jokes about death and retirement should not be allowed on April fools...
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Modded to zero a few days after posting... I wonder if Microsoft employees found this place...
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Not at all. I am worried about the implications on the study conclusions on interrogation techniques. The validity of a confession obtained under coercion can be questioned when you show the effect an…
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I see the implications of this are enormous. The first example that comes to my mind is criminal prosecution. The second are software salesman. I have seen a lot of smart people who bought from Vignet…
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Not at all in the corporate market.
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It's safe to assume Microsoft felt said manifesto would not help them leverage their many monopolies to secure another one in cloud computing. If one could be certain of something about the manifesto,…
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Oops... Actually, OPENSTEP is an API implementation. The OS was named OpenStep.
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So, the combo WebKit with WebCore and JavascriptCore is LGPL, not BSD. The only reason to contribute to a BSD project is when you dominate the segment, like Apple does with WebKit browsers, and you wa…
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Of course, marketing is important. Apple also has very sexy hardware on its side, something RH doesn't. People basically buy Macs and they happen to come with OSX just like people buy Dell and that ha…
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KHTML is LGPL. WebKit, according to Wikipedia, has WebCore and JavascriptCore licensed under LGPL and the whole WebKit under BSD, which strikes me as slightly odd because, IIRC, LGPL could not be just…
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While the strategy to commoditize your product's complements is clever, doing so can be dangerous if you use a license that allows your competitors to take your work and run against you. When doing so…
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There is no such dichotomy between free-as-in-speech and commercial software. Red Hat pretty much sell free-as-in-speech software and make a healthy amount of money from support contracts attached to …
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And what is the license under which WebKit/KHTML is?
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I think that the first is a closed, proprietary product based mainly on BSD-style code and the other are services centered around the evolution of a free GPL-like product that remains free speaks for …
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So, in face of irrelevance, ESR has to make controversial statements like this to retain some eyeballs. That's sad.
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And lies like the one you posted reinforce this inaccurate belief. Well done.
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All but FreeBSD are proprietary (I doubt OpenSolaris commands a meaningful market-share for now) and the combined market share of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD is dwarfed by Linux's, which is dwarfed by…