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Thank you. When the "DriveForLinux" grumbling and whining started, my response was simple: "Since when do we whine about things and not just do it ourselves?" T

Thank you. When the "DriveForLinux" grumbling and whining started, my response was simple: "Since when do we whine about things and not just do it ourselves?" The response I got back was mostly "because [insert excuse]." I'm not in a position where I could've done this (openly), or helped. (Contributing to open source is in a contractually grey area for me... may become my employer's property, so I avoid it. [Yeah, yeah, because [insert excuse] ;) ] So I'm happy to see somebody step up and do something. Sure, it's not full-service. But it works. So again, thank you to those responsible. Maybe now El Goog will decide to release their Drive client for Linux.

waterlesscloud 14y ago
I'm just waiting for Google to claim the API is copyrighted.
- thrill 14y ago
  and the oracle speaks ...
gcr 14y ago
) Here you go. You dropped it.
- cydonian_monk 14y ago
  Whoops. And entirely too late to go back and edit. Oh, the bad habits we gain from nanny IDEs.... Though most IDEs wouldn't catch it, given the ;), but would likely complain about the out-of-order ]. Thanks, though very meta.
- mparlane 14y ago
  Not to mention the ";)" completely messing with the matching brackets.
Arelius 14y ago
You should move to California, where contracts aren't able to enforce that should you work in your own time on your own hardware.
- cydonian_monk 14y ago
  I agree. Completely.
- rockandplace 14y ago
  Can you elaborate? What ruling was this, and how do they define "own time"?
  - Arelius 14y ago
    http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&group=02001-03000&file=2870-2872 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&#3... In my limited understanding, that should allow you to continue to work on open-source projects on the side. Personally, I generally use it as leverage to get more reasonable language in my contracts at time of signage, but that seems unnecessary.

waterlesscloud 14y ago

I'm just waiting for Google to claim the API is copyrighted.

thrill 14y ago
and the oracle speaks ...

gcr 14y ago

) Here you go. You dropped it.

cydonian_monk 14y ago
Whoops. And entirely too late to go back and edit. Oh, the bad habits we gain from nanny IDEs.... Though most IDEs wouldn't catch it, given the ;), but would likely complain about the out-of-order ]. Thanks, though very meta.
mparlane 14y ago
Not to mention the ";)" completely messing with the matching brackets.

Arelius 14y ago

You should move to California, where contracts aren't able to enforce that should you work in your own time on your own hardware.

cydonian_monk 14y ago
I agree. Completely.
rockandplace 14y ago
Can you elaborate? What ruling was this, and how do they define "own time"?
- Arelius 14y ago
  http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&group=02001-03000&file=2870-2872 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=lab&#3... In my limited understanding, that should allow you to continue to work on open-source projects on the side. Personally, I generally use it as leverage to get more reasonable language in my contracts at time of signage, but that seems unnecessary.