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Comment Re:Office 365 (Score 1) 337

by sibtrag on Monday October 21, 2013 @05:12PM (#45193931) Attached to: Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats

Some give credit to IBM who in 1969 unbundled their software from their hardware. Prior to that, software was provided free with source code. This move was, in part, a response to anti-trust accusations.

Comment Re:Wait. You get paid? (Score 0) 257

by sibtrag on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @05:36PM (#42875609) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Making Side-Money As a Programmer?

That. You've certainly heard of open-source. Software wants to be free. This means that programmer salaries want to be $0.

Comment Re:When Something Goes Wrong... (Score 1) 339

by sibtrag on Thursday March 27, 2008 @11:30AM (#22882308) Attached to: Why OldTech Keeps Kicking

Yes.

Programmer Buys Original Ada Lovelace Painting On eBay 86

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 25, 2008 @01:29AM from the mother-of-us-all dept.

An anonymous reader sends the story of the rediscovery of an original painting of Ada Byron at about age 4, the girl who was to become Countess Lovelace and the world's first computer programmer. A US Army sergeant in Tajikistan caught wind of an eBay auction of a 180-year-old painting of Ada Byron, with provenance; he notified a programmer buddy in Texas, who won the auction.

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