Comment Re:Fork? (Score 2, Funny) 156
The problem is, he already sold the copyright and now only has access to the GPLed version.
So, basically Monty screwed himself in the deal! Haha! He should now change his name to Monty Wide-Anus.
The problem is, he already sold the copyright and now only has access to the GPLed version.
So, basically Monty screwed himself in the deal! Haha! He should now change his name to Monty Wide-Anus.
Why should I write my code so that the lowest-common-denominator dull thud who took CSci just for the money can come along five years later and maintain it?
No, so that you can come along five years later and maintain it.
Or your future boss can outsource it to some peanut-salaried person in Eastern Europe or Asia or Latin America or Nigeria.
When something like this happens for other companies, malware is a fact of life.
Nobody likes pissing in their own pool.
... everyone was complaining about how slow their computers were
Maybe they were running Windows Vista ?
She said the software was authorized by a previous administration and her husband has better things to do to than look for aliens.
"We have seven kids together," Niesluchowski's wife said.
NEZ's wife thought "SEX@Home" not "SETI@Home", unlike NEZ.
The mergers and acquisition group at Oracle should have known
Sorry to remind you that M&As mostly for huge corporations such as Oracle are handled by the likes of Goldman Sachs and their brethren, who as we all know are the quintessential causes of the financial crises (yes, plural) of today. To think that they knew beyond their own arrogance is to ignore recent history!
It can't be that hard or "bloated" since many others are already doing this - Blackberry, Android, etc. - can't be too hard for a web browser.
They run a very minimal type of browser, and do not have extensions, so you're point here is not valid. Blackberry and/or Android are full fledged operating systems where sandboxing is easily implemented whereas browser is just an application and sandboxing an extension while still giving it access to every web page's content is a little harder to implement.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky