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uygtfrgtyjuhk
16y ago
Thus allowing you to maximize your income, skill utilization and benefit to society - hence a commie plot (apparently)
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uygtfrgtyjuhk
16y ago
Remember that a big chunk of the cost in canada (or the UK) is for geriatric care, mental illness, addicts etc - people who need long term 24x7 care. Things which are really social services. The cost of actual medical care for a 20-50 some
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uygtfrgtyjuhk
16y ago
Note that there is R&D and 'corporate R&D' These aren't necessarily research positions, they are often just offshored software development work and even tech support call centers. Anything that isn't billed per widget is often count
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uygtfrgtyjuhk
16y ago
Ironically the US actually spends more $/person for health care than the UK or Canada do to cover everyone. Simply because the insurance and billing drive costs so much higher
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uygtfrgtyjuhk
16y ago
In the UK, or anywhere else in Europe, or Canada - or pretty much any other capitalist country - you can leave your job for a better paying one or to start your own wealth creating business. This allows the country to maximize the value of
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uygtfrgtyjuhk
16y ago
Linux, Samba, OpenOffice etc not competing with MSFT? They claimed they were in their market statements
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uygtfrgtyjuhk
16y ago
The difference is that this can only increase sells of Kinect hw and MSFT sw. Samba allowed you to replace expensive Windows Servers and expensive Client access license with free Linux boxes != Balmer being a happy bunny
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uygtfrgtyjuhk
16y ago
Why is it that people all remember this as the golden rule of the mythical man month? The exact circumstances refer to a particular type of team development (surgical team) form a day when you wrote OSes in assembler and you had to coordina
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uygtfrgtyjuhk
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MSFT is totally happy to use BSD licensed code in it's own products - but GPL code might compete with it's products.