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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:
- software developers are expensive
- if the government actively backs the idea that programmers have no right to the intellectual property they produce, the shortage will go away.
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??
There are responses to this message:
- Re: Fucking Daft, Zac, 8/28/2000; 3:29:51 PM
- Re: Fucking Daft, Brett Glass, 8/28/2000; 4:37:14 PM
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