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Comment They are afraid of GPL (Score 5, Interesting) 116

Most companies are afraid to derive products from projects with GPL license, in fear that they will have to share all their code (even unrelated) with customers, and that exact obligation from license is unclear, and might change in court.

Now, article seems to be more about using SW tools developed with GPL license; not developing their own products from GPL components. That is lesser issue.

Comment nokia's sole purpose is to promote windows phone (Score 0) 447

and die in process. It is all calculated. Both parties knew Nokia is done and finished. They cannot be that dumb to not see what every consumer sees. So that billion bucks paid by MS is like money paid to advertisement. And just maybe, there is clause that another MS bailout would come.

Comment It boils down to managed vs non mananged language (Score 1) 358

As many know, it is possible but tought to make C-based apps that have perfect memory management and no chance of crashing. My own applications, and hundred professional ones written in C/C++ do crash. Sometimes. And it is often hard to figure out where they crash. It could be array out of bounds, some NULL pointer de-referencing, some dependent library doing the same, etc.
While Java-based ones never do. They do throw exception, at which point you know what/where to fix.

Comment Re:Way ahead of you, Symantec (Score 1) 149

Yep, from behavior of McAfee scanning compressed files, implementation has to be something like this:
int scan_zipped_file(char * file, int file_size)
{
      int i=0;
      int j=0;
      while (j < file_size)
      {
            while (i < 0x7FFFFFFF)
            {
              i++;
            }
            j++;
      }
      return 1;
}

Comment on the other hand, outsorcing didn't work well (Score 1) 175

Gov't outsourced federal student loan processing to private company, and that didn't work well either. Auto-pay didn't work for days, so many had "payment late" notices. site was unusable for a week.
http://consumerist.com/2011/10/dept-of-educations-new-site-giving-headaches-to-folks-with-student-loans.html

Comment Friday off - bad choice (Score 1) 614

They should have went with Wednesday off. 3 days in row off means that kids won't do much for these 3 days. If they had 2 days school, one day off to do homework, then another two days of school, they wouldn't be so disconnected.

but I suppose teachers like 3 days off too - so it is win/win for everybody but students.

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