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Fucking Daft

Author:Joshua Allen
Posted:8/28/2000; 3:00:26 PM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 8/28/2000
Msg #:20395 (In response to 20384)
Prev/Next:20394 / 20396

OK, this NYT article is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. And I have read some really stooooopid stuff. Here is the summary:

The article has lots of input from failed software companies that have decided to become services companies instead. Wladawsky-Berger of IBM is even quoted in the article, saying something like, "we can't make any money from software so we have to sell services -- we believe that this is the only way to deal with such complex issues in a free market. Please pass a law!!"

Next interesting point: did you know that the word "service" in Microsoft's "software as a service", and "service" in the sense of services that VA Linux, Sun, and IBM hope to sell are the same thing?!? No, I didn't either. Trust a NYT reporter to miss a live-or-die distinction like that. Fucking daft.

The times notes: "Developers typically join open-source projects or the challenge of solving interesting software problems and the resulting recognition of their peers"

Are we really that cheap??

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