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| Authored by: jbb on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 03:48 AM EDT |
mrisch said:
I tend to focus on the money, because I think it
is
money that helps move things along.
This may be the root of
some of the disagreements here. I, for one, am not motivated by the money. In
fact, many (perhaps a majority) in the FOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source
Software) community are not motivated by the money. Saying we are motivated by
money (which were not your exact words) would be like saying test pilots or
mountain climbers are motivated by the money.
IMO, any real communication
will be nearly impossible as long as you harbor this gross misconception about
what motivates us to create software. If you want to learn more about our true
motivations, a great place to start is Tracy Kidder's book the Soul of a New
Machine. IIRC, that book was mostly about hardware development, not
software development but having personally done a lot of both, I can tell you
the motivations are almost identical.
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Our job is to remind
ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 10:40 AM EDT |
| See this article - Where Judge Posner throws out the Google Apple case recently.
And in the article we find he also has a blog where he ranted about how bad the
patent mess has become.
Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent
system “dysfunctional”
Back in the day...
the Sun staff were
playing a game (jokingly playing the USPTO staff as fools, while testing USPTO
in a "lab game" of a social nature) Where in reality, when taken to the next
step that game = Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system
“dysfunctional” - both look at this problem as serious to the point of it being
satire.
The USPTO staff were too ignorant (just not educated enough) to know
what they were looking at, so Sun's test of them, was correct - they were
guessing (and approved the patents) that now Oracle owns.
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