You clearly haven't read the brief, or even have a basic understanding of the case (hint: API's are not copyrighted). If Google wins, there is no such thing as copyrighted software anymore. All software with available source code, can simply be pasted into the IDE of your choice and compiled. Everything will be totally free. As a software developer your source code can be taken from you and used in any manner, including the one you originally write it for, without payment or recognition. If you like the sound of that, support Google! If you think that doesn't sound quite right, support Oracle. Your call.

Uhm, they copied the ACTUAL java source code. Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V. Compile. Hey, we have a new API for Android! And it works just like the JAVA API you are used to programming with! Same calls and everything! Amazing! Hence, the lawsuit.

No. Not at all. Read the $#%^ briefing, please. Google did a copy/paste of the Java source code into their own source code. The code that creates the API's is copyrighted. The API's themselves are not.

I assume the latest version of IIS is required, and all developers have to do is enable the proprietary extensions on the server and in the browser to make this work. Wait, this sounds kind of familiar...

To get NSF or DARPA money you have to fill out a grant application...it's the model that's broken. Adding more money to a broken model won't help much.

It shouldn't be scientists who agree, but their (verifiable, repeatable) research that agrees. Rock star scientists get us in trouble....

What makes you think there is 'none of that' going on in Medicine? We have studies with huge populations taking place over decades that are ongoing. Cancer isn't that common in the population as a whole, and it takes years to study a full cycle on one person.

Here is a project tracking 10,000+ colorectal cancer patients over 19 + years. https://www.cancercare.on.ca/r...

That project rolls into this project and shares data with 5 other registries. http://epi.grants.cancer.gov/

There is a lot of very good, very detailed very repeatable work out there. Medical research can't generate patients like a physicists can generate electrons, unless you want to induce more cancer in the population...To dismiss this important research out of hand is insulting.

Whether it simply 'makes cancer grow faster' or encourages the growth of the first cancer cell is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. That's like saying the wright brothers never flew because they didn't understand fluid dynamics. You don't need to understand something to observe it - we can observe that curved wings produce lift. Most of science is observed well before it is understood.

What we can observe today,with certainty, is there is link between smoking and increased rates of lung cancer. We are still working on understanding cancer.

When 1000's of studies, all done differently, with different data, in different places all come to the same conclusion....you ask for 1001 because, hey, you never know, right? Here's three we can put to bed: the world is not flat, vaccines work well, and smoking causes lung cancer.

IF WE DON'T WANT TO MANAGE, WE SHOULD KEEP OUR SKILLS CURRENT SO WE DONT WIND UP IN THIS SITUATION

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This guys knows what you do: crappy requirements, incorrect documentation, impatient users, poor design decisions. What else does he need to know to manage a team of developers? The language changes, but the environment doesn't....

BTW: management IS a trade. You can get degrees in it and everything!

They draw dinosaurs, flowers, spiderman, farm animals, hopscotch, race tracks, cities. The driveway and sidewalk are fully engulfed my mid-spring and only 'reset's when it rains. Kids at play. With chalk. MSFT sales people are free to come by and observe.

A lot of people think agile means "we can develop with no documentation now! "

Which is also really amazingly appealing and also completely bogus :)

Agile, done right, has been a game changer here. Yes, we had to let some of our developers go - the ones who couldn't actually think. We're better off for it.

Incorrect, and arrogant. It IS hard to write well, it is a skill, it can be learned, and not many in the tech community have it.

"It isn't hard to code well, it just takes time" - said no writer, ever.