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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 10:28 PM EDT |
I remember having trouble with the substring function calls when moving between
languages because of the subtle differences and again when using javascript and
lotusscript.
How many of the java APIs are in use elsewhere?
For languages to be competitive they must offer similar functions and there are
only so many ways to call for substring, length, absolute value.....
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| Authored by: PJ on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 10:41 PM EDT |
Mr. Purdy is also confused about how the GPL
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| Authored by: designerfx on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 11:41 PM EDT |
So maybe he is the one who writes what Florian publishes?
I know this sounds like somewhat of a stretch, but matches up
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| Authored by: complex_number on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 02:46 AM EDT |
As an engineer I clearly remember some experiments we did where we had a number
of small black boxes and had to determine what was inside only by measurments to
the various stimulii we applied to the terminals on the outside.
This is reverse engineering at its most basic.
The terminals of the black boxes are the API. Apply 5vDC on terminals A&B
what comes out of C&D. Reverse the polarity and what happens? Change it to
5vAC at 1KHz etc etc etc.
Making API's subject to copyright will stop pretty well all Software Reverse
engineering dead in its tracks. No more cleanroom implementations. killed stone
dead.
This has been IMHO Oracle's hidden agenda all along. They don't want an
important software company finally giving Oracle the heave ho and basing all
their use of Java on their own 'cleanroom implementation'. This could take off
and gain popularity especially if it didn't come bloated like the Oracle
packages.
Suddenly the Oracle/Java business case would look start to look really shaky.
They don't want anyone from producing a Database that looks to the outside world
like Oracle but does not run one bit of Oracle code inside. Possible? Yeah it
sure is. The only way to guarantee to stop this is to make the unlicensed use of
the API's a crime.
I could go on about how I see the future for software developers but I think
that should be the subject of another post. All I'll say is thank god I'm only a
few years away from retiring.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 07:25 AM EDT |
There are many layers to what Oracle and SCO have been
trying to do.
Proprietary thoughts, all.
Just imagine what Sun's Unix would have been under then, as
BSD would maybe have been able to have been under the sights
of the new owners of Novell (and SCO).
It would have meant the end of tech in the US.
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