neljapäev, 25. veebruar 2016 23:16.50 UTC kirjutas William: > > > It is very true that -- for whatever reason -- certain companies are > at least somewhat systematically supporting open source. Recently > Google and Microsoft (!) are two such companies.. > ... >
I do not want to spam this thread, but for the reference, I have my won, personal, relations with Microsoft and as of now I do not regret it a bit. Quite the opposite, as a freelancer, who wants to earn by using open source software I'm proud to have actually done something for protecting my turf at a time, when it mattered, unlike the many others, who just let the world around them go by. http://longterm.softf1.com/biased_history/2005_microsoft_hired_inorek_and_grey_to_lobby_for_software_patents/ Apart from that I do not take the Microsoft open source efforts seriously, because they do not develop software technology to lessen human suffering, which in practice means that they will abandon a project the moment they do not see any short term profits emerging from it. I do not mind them for being greedy, I'm also greedy myself, but I certainly mind them not paying attention to the various side effects of their operations. There is the argument that I as a poor person should not be comparing myself with the billionaire Bill Gates, but I still say that from my perspective it is LITERALLY STUPID of Bill Gates to first make a MESS on the market place by fighting the open source movement that drug developers and educational institutions depend on and then, at an "retirement age", start spending its money on advancing education and financing drug development through his foundation. If we hadn't won him at Europe, then he would never be able to compensate the harm that his Microsoft patent layers had done, even if he burnt his billions through his charity foundation even at a far greater rate than he is in 2016. On the other hand, Bill Gates is an American and I as an Estonian/European have had years the impression that regardless of interest group, regardless of party, regardless of topic all of the "America's" troubles emanate from the American style of thinking that a fast decision is better than no decision. If Americans just scrapped that idea that a fast decision is better than no decision and took time for thinking, the whole world would be better off. To bring an example from the Russian side, I say that as long as the Russian culture has respect for hierarchy, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, but weapons, clothing style, architecture of buildings, will change in Russia. You can replace Putin with whomever You want, as long as the culture respects hierarchy, NOTHING WILL CHANGE, not the economy, not the opportunities for journalists to publicly publish their thoughts and observations, you name it. Often times You might hear that Russians are lazy by culture. I say that being lazy is the only way to survive in an hierarchy, because the moment someone uses his own head to do something, it is not approved by the hierarchy and will get into conflict with others, specially if the others sincerely believe that the hierarchy must be respected. There are many Estonian Russians within the people that I know and consider "friends" in the American meaning of the word "friend". Those Russians are not lazy at all, they speak Russian natively, often times Estonian without any accent, but they have culturally let go of the dumb respect for hierarchy and that of course opens up new collaboration opportunities, makes them kind of "non-Russian" in the classical Russian culture point of view. That is to say, just like in mathematics there are some premises that determine the whole game, cultures, regardless of whether they are associated with some particular region on planet Earth or not, have also some fundamental laws that determine the whole game. As a matter of fact I try to figure out, what are those laws and then try to use the actual cases as test data. http://bitrary.softf1.com/index.php?title=Philosophy_:_Culture_:_Basic_Rules I guess that it also helps to see the different business cultures, the typical corporate culture included, in a more systematic way. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
