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by marrs 11y ago
I've never seen more than 1 month notice in a standard contract. Everyone I know who has had more than that negotiated it for themselves.
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by marrs 11y ago
The argument is that Github's censorship is acceptable because those are the terms under which they choose to operate their business and if you don't like it you can go somewhere else (which seems reasonable enough to me). I think
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by marrs 11y ago
It is a private company, alright, but it is also becoming a critical company for the internet as a whole Hardly. OSS was in a very healthy state before Github and it will manage just fine without it. I'm not saying Github doe
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by marrs 11y ago
Downvoting isn't equal to censorship Downvoting obscures the post being downvoted, so it kind of is.
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by marrs 11y ago
or a pentacycle :) https://horshamphotography.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/img_5...
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by marrs 11y ago
I found it interesting to see how - if the story is true - your enemies may not be who they appear to be. He thought the labels hated his business whereas they may have actually been quite partial to it in slightly different circumstances.
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by marrs 11y ago
I'd forgotten all about Songbird. I kept coming back to that app but I never managed to stay. I always felt I should like much better than I actually did.
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by marrs 11y ago
All software licenses rely on them. Copyright and patents are the only provisions under the law for licensing software, and both are used.
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by marrs 11y ago
Or you could google to see if anyone else has had and solved this problem
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by marrs 11y ago
I've used both, and Gimp falls flat in the implementation of the features that it does have. I've also used both, regularly and for many years, and my experience is the opposite. As I keep saying, Gimp's UI and
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by marrs 11y ago
I think you mean the cost of distribution. A business can keep its modifications as secret as it likes so long as it doesn't distribute the modified binary.
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by marrs 11y ago
I'm sorry but PS is not vastly superior to Gimp; it's largely equivalent. PS has tools that Gimp doesn't have and Gimp has tool that PS doesn't have. Given the choice, I use Gimp over PS because of the reasons I mentione
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by marrs 11y ago
I don't think they're wilfully ignorant either, but they are woefully ignorant, and actually software is tightly woven into their lives so they need to be educated. It's more serious than you might realise. People have foun
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by marrs 11y ago
Every printer I've ever owned has worked out of the box with Linux, so pretty well it would seem.
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But all of the examples you cite (with the exception of Photoshop) are used by developers. The article was talking specifically about serving the interests of users of applications . I actually think you chose a bad example with the Adob
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by marrs 11y ago
Are you joking? Apple products are the most locked down and functionally inept of them all. Remind me again how I can drag and drop music onto my iPod, or for that matter play an ogg or flac file on it, or switch to a different task on my M
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by marrs 11y ago
No, but that's not relevant because what quickly happened is that communities of programmers grew around free software projects on which they collaborated, and they made their work widely and easily available at cost of distribution on
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by marrs 11y ago
It might also refer to the forced redundancies that will follow after everyone has received their pay rise and the organisation need to make budget cuts. Then of course projects start to fall behind and so temporary funds are release to bri
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by marrs 11y ago
I think it said 5% shared the spreadsheet. We know nothing of the other 95%
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by marrs 11y ago
I guess there's no point in even pretending to be trying any more
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by marrs 11y ago
I can see how someone could be comfortable with the quality of today's journalism in the sense that at least it's obviously bullshit. The trouble is that this means we're out of practice when we have to assess what appears to
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by marrs 11y ago
LOL. I'm guessing the irony of that title is intended
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by marrs 11y ago
I suspect it's more because companies can't chose when they have to expand a team. If they need 5 new devs and they need them now, they are in a weak position when negotiating salary. Publicising that a new unproven hire is earnin
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by marrs 11y ago
I say he's trying to tell you that like I know; I should have said I presume that's what he was getting at. On a first reading, that was my interpretation. A very common argument criticising free software is that, since most us
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by marrs 11y ago
You seen to be implying that the user is empowered only if he is also a developer, or has access to a developer. The respondent is trying to show how this is still empowerment. Would you rather be in a position where you can't hire a d
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by marrs 11y ago
It's in the best interest of every company to pay as little as the employee will take so every employee has to stand up for themselves. That's true, if the company culture you're looking for is a back-stabbi
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by marrs 11y ago
Really? According to what study? I don't think I've ever discussed the topic of salary negotiation socially in my entire life.
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by marrs 11y ago
3. sue Google 4 $$$
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by marrs 11y ago
Having read your exchanges with Quadrangle and Baddox, I think I get where you're coming from. The trouble with your reasoning is that it only considers the point of view of the publisher and ignores the consumer entirely. It's no
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by marrs 11y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed this

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