I work on large projects for my job, and we currently use Make, just like everyone else. Our project layout is complicated, which means that the Makefiles are practically voodoo at this point. What makes it even worse is that we try to re-use code, which means we have a directory structure just for common [...]
They also don’t get a number of other things, like punctuation and grammar. When I was in 1st grade, my teacher gave us an assignment to write something – you know, on those tables with the huge writing lines with the dashed line in the middle so you’d know how big to make your lower-case [...]
Ballmer on Novell, Linux and patents This smells like “SCO v IBM vol. II” to me. One commentor on the Post-Intelligencer website seems to elucidate clearly what’s going on: #16666 Posted by unregistered user at 11/17/06 7:15 a.m. So if Linux violates Microsoft’s patents, why doesn’t Microsoft say which patents are being violated and sue [...]
FORTUNE: Legal pad This is a great example of the hypocrisy of the GNU GPL and the associated ideology that is so much baggage. From the GNU website: “Free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. [...]