4 Nov
2011
4 Nov
'11
3:04 p.m.
a message from the admin to the effect of "your
opensource project harms
commercial interests, and we have few enough commercial suppliers left
as it is". I've stopped trying...
That admin neaed a healthy dose of clue-by-four IMHO. Presumably, the
open-source developers who produced linux, gcc, etc harm Microsoft.
Presumably I (and many other here) harm computer technicians nad car
mechanics by doing all our own repairs. Presuably also we harm computer
companies by keepign this running rathr tha continually replacing them.
Give me a break [1]!/
[1] If any joker says 'assert TsD for 0.5s', I'll give _them_
theclue-by-four ;-)
- DiscFerret and (to some degree) Catweasel --
Tinkerers. People who
want to look under the hood, see how things are done. The sort of folks
who buy a car, then immediately go out and buy the Workshop Manual,
Haynes manual and all the special tools required.
So what about the sort of person who buys the workshop manual -- the
official one -- before buyign the car. Makes the special tools himself on
his lathe. Presumably they should buy an FPGA development kit and make
theire onw disk reader :-)
-tony