On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:25:33 +0800 "Dean Michael Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Bernstein's DNS server was born out of frustration from how Bind's > design was in his words intrinsically flawed -- and the same goes for > qmail and other software that the good doctor has chosen to open > source. These software were proof of concepts which challenged > existing status quo solutions and became popular on their own > *technical* merit. >
Just a nitpick. None of Dan Bernstein's software is actually Free Software or even Open Source. Sure, you can get the source code, but it doesn't come with any sort of license, meaning that it is definitively *proprietary software*, for which, just incidentally, the source code happens to be available. The absence of a license implies that Bernstein reserves all the rights he gets under copyright law, and that makes it only marginally better than software published by Microsoft or some other proprietary software company. But I forget, these freedoms espoused by Free Software don't really matter that much to you. > and I don't believe in proposing something absurd just because it's > going to be watered down (I believe in the "do it once, do it well" > mantra). But that's not how (nor will it ever be how) the government works, and I think you know it. The bill WILL get watered down when/if it ever comes to debate in Congress, so it's better to ask for the moon so that when inevitably more and more provisions get weakened or removed while it's under consideration we end up with legislation that still serves a useful purpose. If the bill were to do as you advocated, "do it once, do it well", we would get NOTHING. The substantive provisions will probably get negotiated out or seriously weakened in the bill very quickly because there's nothing else there to remove or weaken. Your advice is sound for software engineering, but it's a recipe for failure in many other situations, especially social ones, like negotiation or salesmanship, which I imagine you have precious little true experience with. Try selling something at the exact price you want and you'll probably find yourself getting less than that as prospective customers try to bargain the price down, or you might lose prospects outright as you're perceived as being inflexible. Do it the other way, and you might wind up getting more than you expected, by letting the person you're negotiating with feel like they're in control of things. -- 下手な考え休むに似たり。 http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com
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