Comment Re:Try Google Keep (Score 4, Insightful) 133
And yes, I know about their export capabilities. It only marginally improves matters.
Back at product introduction (the plain PC, not the PC-XT) the PC sold with as little as 16K of DRAM on the motherboard, with sockets to upgrade to the full 64K
And DIP switches to indicate the amount of memory installed.
We all know he could have a job at Wal-Mart, 7-11, or McDonald's within a few hours.
It's quite possible that he could get such a job, though I don't know what the job market is like in Pensacola (I believe that's where the article indicated he was). That doesn't mean that he could afford rent somewhere - from the article, the main person being discussed became homeless initially after a multi-roommate apartment fell apart, and has bounced in and out of being able to afford a place since.
The more interesting part of the article is that some homeless are now starting to use Bitcoin as a way to get around not having a bank account (hard to do when you have no fixed address, I believe). This ties in well with many low-income folks having (disproportionally?) good smartphones - they can do it because that's the Internet access they can afford, and if they actually have a contract they may be getting decent phones because they can manage the installments.
That said, if there's an open source project that you've gotten significant use and value out of and you'd like to support it as a business expense, there's a trivially easy way to do it that beancounters won't blink at:
Contract one or more core developers to come and do a day or two of training/consulting at a cost of $4000 plus expenses. Four grand for an in-office trainer for X of your staff? Completely unremarkable expense, and you really do get something more out of it while supporting that project.
* Clinton impeachment? Lying under oath. Martha Stewart? Lying to investigators.
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982