Oh yea, There are so many GPL'd VB programs out there? What the hell do a lack of unskilled VB programmers have to do with Linux and GPL? Can you even compile VB to run on any *nix?
And SQL is so reusable that I should start using JOIN statements from some Postgres app in MS Access. Tables, keys, and referencial integrity are the same in all systems right. Dusty > This columnist must get a lot of fan mail... > > http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/05/25/1536226.shtml?tid=11 > > Warning, warning, warning: all kinds of logical gymnastics ahead. A > columnist at WorldTechTribune suggests that programmers' skills are > eroding because they can cut and past code from Open Source programs > instead of writing it themselves. He bases this claim on a company > Australia that can't find skilled Visual Basic and SQL programmers. > Here's some of that strange logic: " Because of the General Public > License that virtually all Linux/open source apps are subject to, > Linux/open source programmers are within legal rights to cut-and-paste > pieces of code from any other open source app into their project." By > the way, there's a place on the article to email the columnist. > > http://www.worldtechtribune.com/worldtechtribune/asparticles/buzz/bz05222002.asp> > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
