Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raymond happens to be the chief evangelist for something known as open-source software (which, not coincidentally, is the target of the new memos), a movement that is growing in popularity almost as fast as the Internet that helped spawn it. The idea is that the best way to build and market truly great software is to give it away and then enlist the collective talent of the thousands of programmers on the Net who will use it, debug it and ultimately improve and extend it. Case in point? Linux, a hugely popular version of the Unix operating system that...
...conspiracy-minded. No sooner had the memos leaked than some began to suggest that they were, in fact, planted. After all, Microsoft has long insisted that it is not a monopoly because its market dominance could be overturned in a flash by any programmer with a better idea...
...humiliating because it presumes lawmakers can be bought for a pittance. And some current committee chairmen, faced with losing power in just two years, are suddenly seeing the value in accruing the wisdom and effectiveness that only a long tenure can provide. They want the term limits revoked. Another idea being floated: a pay raise for House members, something Livingston has supported in the past. But lawmakers shouldn?t get their hopes up. Said a GOP official on Capitol Hill, referring to the idea of revoking term limits for committee chairmen: "That'll fly like a lead zeppelin...
...What gave you guys the idea to do Harry Belafonte's "Jump in the Line" for the Baseketball soundtrack...
...that we all happen to have been "received" by Earth, to conclude that, "It is very likely that, as galactic civilizations go, we are on the above-average development level, and possibly way up there among the most advanced." But even using Aczel's own logic, we have no idea how many people have been "received" by other civilizations, so we don't know whether we just happen to be the equivalent of the few lucky people who arrive at the stop in the short interval between buses...