You have the quote wrong... The concept is that the recipe for beer is free, and that you are there free to make your own. Not that the beer that I make is free, or that the beer that Bob the street makes. But then again, Sam Adams does not have to give thier recipe away with the changes that they made, but hey they base recipe is free. -------------- Eric
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
I guess that I should have been more clear in my original post. I use and am a fan of many open source projects. I use linux and pay my bills by it. There are features that are in the linux desktop that Apple and Microsoft still cannot wrap thier heads around. It is not necessarily the end use or many of the coders of open source. It is the closed minded ones that do not accept any other reality. There was a post by someone previously that said it best. Use it and enjoy it. Write code for it or not, but in the end have fun. ---------------------------------------------------------
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
Alrighty, I did not mean, and do not hope to start a flame war. Linux engineering pays my bills. I benefit just as much as the next Joe for all the work that is done by people that make money for companies just by improving linux and other open source software. I guess that the big hang up that I have is the vehemence for which many Linux and OSS enthusiasts have against any closed source software. The support model does not work for everyone. I do not know about you, but I am willing to pay for a good piece of software. I just do not understand why a huge number of distros refuse to include any closed source software in thier releases. It is kinda funny considering that everyone that I know that uses linux turns around and installs all of the codecs so that they can run thier video and play music. Why? because someone has a high horse and is unwilling to accept something that is not free. That is hypocracy. Closed minded to any view that is not open. Thanks for the input though. And I agree, they need to eat too. -------------------------------
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
So, over and over again, I hear about how Linux and Open Source Software is free. That would be great if it were true, but this article talks about who paid for the 2.6.20 kernel. From the looks of the article, it would seem that a majority of the developers, the major contributors, are paid to work on and improve the kernel. Tell me, how is this any different than a person working at microsoft on their kernel. The only difference is that it is open to all. It is still the corporate world that benefits. Ok, so we can use it for free for ourselves, and anyone can go in and poke around on it. Wow... that is so great. Mind the sarcasm, but much of the OSS world remind me of nothing more than hypocrits. I may be wrong, and let me know if I am, but I just do not see it that way. The open source developer is potrayed as a person that does most of thier coding in thier off hours. Coding late into the night, and working some corporate job during the day to pay the bills. This article destroys that perception, at least for me. Tie this in with the developers working on Open Office and any number of other projects, and the end result is that they are really slaves to the all mighty dollar. Just like the rest of us. Oh, but they will get on their high horse and talk about how this is for the community. The real question is, if the money quit flowing how much linux development would continue. You see, I may be getting the idea completely wrong, but if it comes down to money, then how is closed source software any different than open source software. Maybe with one I have to pay for it, but wait, we live in a world where people have to pay bills. Craftsmen and tradesmen have been making money for ages selling thier goods. Why is writing software any different. Yes there are developers that right nothing more than forms for databases, but others are artisans, and deserve to profit from their talents. Does this mean that closed source developers should exploit thier customers? Not at all, but they should get paid for the work that they do. I just don't know anymore. --- Eric
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
Oh, I failed to mention what I am doing this weekend. Working... and the funny thing is, is that this is not a joke. I love implementing production changes to fix issues with daylight savings time. Later
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
Well, if you are working, then could you please answer your phone. It's hard to believe that your own brother has to post on CodeProject just to get a response. Dude... you need to work less and relax more. ;P Eric
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
I have been working on a project and have gotten it to a beta point. At this time, I wish to be able to give this application to other people to be able to test out the functionality. To do this, I have been working with creating a setup project. The problem that I run into is that the access database is not in the same location on the new machine as it is on my development platform. As a result, anytime a database call is made an exception is raised. I have looked for information on how to work with this (books, internet, friends), and have not been able to find any information. The only thing that I did find is that I cannot use xcopy to deploy the application. Does anyone know of an article on this site, or other reference that discusses how to create a setup project that will allow me to set the path for the db on the fly? Thank you in advance for all of the help, Eric VanWieren It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck
I have an idea, quit reading all of the articles. They say that ignorance is bliss right? Later, Eric --All the good themes have been used up. They've been turned into theme parks.
It is not a bad distro, I have tried it myself and thought it was pretty nice. BTW, you do not need all 7 cd's that they have for the distro. I believe the first 4 are all you need. the other 3 contain source code for all of the software on the first 4 disks. I may be wrong, and you may need the fifth disk. By default it will choose KDE as your xwindows manager. It ships with version 3.0 which is pretty nice. Konquerer still has some bugs in it however. Personally, I like RedHat with gnome, but to each his own. Additionally, the iso's for the latest version of suse are not available for free download. So you are looking at dishing out anywhere from 40 to 80$ (US currency). If you decide to try red hat, you can go to linuxiso.org and download it for free. Just my 2 cents worth, Jobu --All the good themes have been used up. They've been turned into theme parks.
Hello all, I am in the process of teaching myself VC++. However, I have received conflicting information about weather or not this is a waste of time. One friend of mine tells me that VC++ and MFC are the way to go, and that C# will not be utilized by many independant companies because of having to use the .NET framework. On the other hand, another friend of mine (also a developer) tells me that I am wasting my time with MFC and that the future is with C#. I was just wondering what your humble opinions on this subject are. Thanks in advance, Jobu --All the good themes have been used up. They've been turned into theme parks.