Re: [Interest] Alone

2018-12-23 Thread Waitman Gobble
Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Dec 23, 2018, 2:16 PM, Roland Hughes wrote: Waitman, The one I had personal experience with was OpenVMS. Microsoft been paying owners of that OS boo-coo bucks to kill it off for years. Killing it off means going to prison though a

Re: [Interest] Alone

2018-12-23 Thread Roland Hughes
Waitman, The one I had personal experience with was OpenVMS. Microsoft been paying owners of that OS boo-coo bucks to kill it off for years. Killing it off means going to prison though and Microsoft isn't willing to pay that price. HP did find a loophole though, you could fire all of the core

Re: [Interest] Alone

2018-12-22 Thread Roland Hughes
I wouldn't call them OpenSource per-se. They were done for one reason or another and released freely. A Java thing I did for the family trucking company that I'm told quite a few small trucking companies used back when fuel surcharges were changing spastic like and difficult to calculate. ht

Re: [Interest] Alone

2018-12-22 Thread Bernhard B
> Personally and professionally I restrict my lone wolf activities to writing my books and offering software for free from time to time. Just out of interest: Do you have a link to an open source project of yours? Am Sa., 22. Dez. 2018 um 18:20 Uhr schrieb Roland Hughes < rol...@logikalsolutions

Re: [Interest] Alone

2018-12-22 Thread Waitman Gobble via Interest
Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Dec 22, 2018, 1:05 PM, Roland Hughes wrote: [snip] Try porting it to a non-Linux platform where the C compiler only goes up to the first half of C99. [/snip] Only Curious.. example of platform that is not Linux and only has 'fir

[Interest] Alone

2018-12-22 Thread Roland Hughes
I would like to thank everyone who has been mentioning "alone" as a criteria in here. We all go through that stage and some of us never leave it. Definitely going to make a nice essay in my new book. At some point we all buy into the fantasy of one developer alone creating something fantastic