"Chante" <udontspa...@never.will.u> wrote in message news:j81ur0$1oij$1...@digitalmars.com... > > "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.350.1319394157.24802.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >> >> LOL. I don't think that it has anything to do with a capitalist anything. >> It's >> going purely by the definition of viral. In the case of the GPL, because >> it's >> viral, it affects everything that it comes into contact wtih. > > Not just everyTHING, but also "infects" everyONE who "comes in contact > with it". Of course one can say the same for programmers who have worked > for a software company. The risk of having foreign code that is patented > or viral creeping into a pristine codebase isn't worth the risk (IMO) of > hiring "tainted" programmers.
Meh, thanks to the corrupt USPTO, all code is covered by one patent or another...programmer taint or not. > Young programmers/programmer-wannabes need to consider this before > signing-on to get that paycheck. Once "tainted", they most likely will > never be able to become "untainted" (there are cures, but they are very > unlikely to be enacted). >
