Posted on 09/19/2005 7:01:42 PM PDT by Incorrigible
Not good enough. A guy with your skills should be donating your time to help work out all the issues. You'll get the pleasure of knowing you helped force all other proprietary developers into donating their time as well.
Yes it is, I already gave you a link saying the name Demzilla was a tribute to open source. Let's hear your laughable excuse for why it isn't.
If people want to do it for free, go for it. Besides, most are done in C++ or Java, 2 of my least favorite programming languages. Now if someone wants them done in MS languages (except Visual C++ which I hate) let me know. =)
I read your link. It says the same thing that you do: that the list is somehow based on Mozilla technology.
What neither you nor the article say is which specific technology. Mozilla does not make database software. It's possible that the DNC uses Seamonkey, Firefox, or Camino to browse a web index of the database, but that's not anywhere close to being "based on Mozilla technology" any more than it would be being "based on Microsoft technology" if they were using IE.
Please name the Mozilla product being used in Demzilla. Otherwise, please stop citing a no-name news source in support of the idea that Firefox is the result of a leftie conspiracy to get us to ditch our capitalist retail software.
He's right and he provided the proof ... hard to argue against.
I said what the article said, Demzilla is a tribute to open source, like Mozilla. It's specifically based on Linux, Apache, and MySQL. Squirm some more if you want, but connections between the DNC/Howard Dean and OSS are quite obvious.
The custom software I do cannot be open source unless the company I build it for wants to release it under an open license. By that time, I will be paid and I don't care what they do with it. If they want to pay me $60 or more an hour for proprietary software and then give it away, that's none of my business.
Huh?
Are you actually claiming that when a freeper points to a third-party claim about a fourth-party website without any backup that we should take it as gospel?
What is this fabled "Mozilla technology?" Name it, please. Then we can continue any debate.
Oh, so it went from being based on Mozilla tech to simply being a tribute, as evidenced by Howard Dean... who wasn't DNC chairman when the list was set up and the name was coined in recognition of a company that no one had heard of until last year! It all makes sense now.
MySQL is probably the DB they are using and it may have originally been built for specific use by a mozilla browser. Years ago I used to have to build web applications that had some diferent pages depending upon the browser the user had. Netscape and IE both had formatting and font differences and Mozilla did not support Active X.
Okay, good point. I'll have to go back and re-read that article to see what they specifically mean.
HP won't admit any defects unless you submit a reproducible demonstration. Once submitted, you will get ONLY the patch necessary to clear the defect you can demonstrate. That stupid approach is a major reason why I steer customers away from HP-UX based systems. It's too expensive to play their little reindeer games.
Man, glad I am not working for IBM.
On a related note, the Opera browser is now free, with no ad banner and no registration fee. It has tabbed browsing and many other features. Check it out at www.opera.com.
GE just confirmed that they don't use Mozilla tech at all--it went from being named Demzilla due to their use of Mozilla software, to being named Demzilla as a tribute to OSS.
These tech threads really give me a headache sometime.
Plus reading an article about democrats, specifically Howard Dean.
Where's the Tylenol?
Don't know about the Tylenol: I've got Excedrin migraine myself.
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