| Re: Open64 Not Setting World on Fire: Why? |
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Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile
Author: James GilesJames Giles Date: May 25, 2007 18:31
"Richard Maine" wrote in message
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> James Giles att.net> wrote:
>>> "Richard Maine" wrote in message
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>> ...
>>> Wait til they discover that you are breathing air on company time, and
>>> you aren't (directly) paying anyone for it. :-)
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>> I've come across this analogy before. It's difficult to think
>> of two things with fewer conceptual similarities than air
>> and software.
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> Industrial processes tend to make both stink. :-)
Most free software stinks big-time. That's why you only
hear about a tiny minority of it. But the stuff that gets
popular is usually at best mediocre. That doesn't resemble
air much. The whole "free software" movement doesn't
make much economic sense at all. Its purpose seems to
be to provide money to distributors (who *do* charge)
that never reaches the people that really deserve it: the
authors of the code. This encourages clever people to
go into some other line of work than writing software.
--
J. Giles
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare
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