“When you take open source code, it’s not necessarily stealing.”
It is, when a client wants Intellectual Property rights for their product, e.g clients of major software companies prohibit their programmers to use open-source code (how much of it is practised is a different thing though…)
You don’t get the point. Stealing = License violation. If you use GPL’d code, you must make available the improvement and changes made. Whereas for BSD license, you can keep it.
Trolltech has dual license for QT library. QT is used for KDE desktop. It is GPL’d (or some other Open Source license) for Open Source apps. It is proprietory for proprietory application which means you need to buy license from Trolltech.
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It is, when a client wants Intellectual Property rights for their product, e.g clients of major software companies prohibit their programmers to use open-source code (how much of it is practised is a different thing though…)
If you read the article, you’ll notice the following…
Microsoft’s vast compatibility strengths have clearly come at a cost, both in developer-sweat and the elegance (and hence stability and maintainability) of the code…
Sorry Ben, the article is not pro-MS and as someone commented in the article, “it’s fun to peek inside the brains of the guys who wrote this monster…”
]]>Problems are generally due to a trade-off of current quality against vast hardware, software and backward compatibility.
– Excuse from Redmond. They should accept, “Our product is crap, we should fix it.”
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