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[golddog]

your speaking my era sir



you got your essential books?

And I'm pretty sure I do, but they would be buried deep in my attic. I have always kept all of my technical stuff.

It's been a long time, and of course I learned all of this stuff Stoned.

 

[Logges]

I never met him, but I met most of the crew.

They, AT&T came out to teach me and probably 3 or 4 other programmers (so we could write device drivers for them).
I worked for a company which sold more UNIX boxes than anyone west of the Mississippi, it was part of the deal.

I worked on ALL of the flavors of UNIX. I still have the Bell Labs manuals. I also still have the book, Operating System Design and implementation in which MINIX was used to teach with examples. I believe is was the book used by Linus Torvalds who implemented the first Linux.

Back then, writing in "C" was new ground, it felt like we were writing on metal.

i might have a crush on you... a manly crush
hey what are your thoughts on open source/free software and digital rights management?

 

[Unnk]

And I'm pretty sure I do, but they would be buried deep in my attic. I have always kept all of my technical stuff.

It's been a long time, and of course I learned all of this stuff Stoned.

the oldies


unix environment books

DoD standard books

the gooooodies

 

[golddog]

i might have a crush on you... a manly crush
hey what are your thoughts on open source/free software and digital rights management?

I've always encouraged Open Source, I was lucky enough to have an AT&T Source license way back. I learned a lot by being able to reference their code.

Code is code.

But then I wrote a lot of software and got ripped off, by some companies in Australia in the early 80's.

So I believe in paying a craftsman his wage. That's kinda where I am on Digital Management.

I just bought my son a legal copy of Shake (video compositing), because I believe if you are going to make money from a tool, you should pay the freight.

This is what America is about, you need to get compensated for your work.
If you are smarter than the next guy or a better businessman, so be it.

 

[Unnk]

I've always encouraged Open Source, I was lucky enough to have an AT&T Source license way back. I learned a lot by being able to reference their code.

Code is code.

But then I wrote a lot of software and got ripped off, by some companies in Australia in the early 80's.

So I believe in paying a craftsman his wage. That's kinda where I am on Digital Management.

I just bought my son a legal copy of Shake (video compositing), because I believe if you are going to make money from a tool, you should pay the freight.

This is what America is about, you need to get compensated for your work.
If you are smarter than the next guy or a better businessman, so be it.

see i think their is fine lines you know

grey area's that no one wants to admit are there

like say you see a new game out

your a programmer

you know you can easily manipulate the source code and make your own game out of it and too your own liking

but that would be like WTF cause it would be like going up to a car stripping it and then replacing the interior and exterior but saying this is mine

BUT if the person asks the developers of this code if they can use it and if they do make any profit it royalties will be given and such they can use it

things like that cant be open source because a DRM is completely needed

but i have no problem torrenting a game to see if i like it

THEN buying it

as long as you end up buying the product really i see no problem with checkin it you know