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Comment: Don't be a sharecropper (slashdot, 2003) (Score 1) 506

by nil0lab on Friday February 10, @12:34AM (#38992329) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs?

http://slashdot.org/story/03/07/13/1557256/dont-be-a-sharecropper

"Open source" MP3 player requires propriet-> 0

Submitted by nil0lab on Monday December 10 2007, @08:28PM

nil0lab writes "Make Magazine's store is offering a so-called "Open Source MP3 Player" that upon further inspection turns out to require a proprietary compiler- the "More info & specs here" page offers "The hex files, if you can't afford to buy the compiler."

I normally like Make Magazine, and O'Reilly, their publishers, but I think here they are taking a bit of a liberty with the term "open source"."
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C# memory leak torpedoed Princeton's chances-> 0

Submitted by nil0lab on Friday November 16 2007, @09:33PM

nil0lab writes "In a shameless commerce plug for some product, Princeton DARPA Grand Challenge team member Bryan Cattle reports how their code failed to forget obstacles it had passed. This is amusing, since it was written in Microsoft's C#, which isn't supposed to let you have memory leaks."
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