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• Systems Software Research is Irrelevant

  Sounds about right This is really an interesting point - and I'll add a little bit of my own opinion to it. Seems to me that there's two kinds of software packages which get put together: Softwa...

• Response to Troll Tech on Qt, KDE, and the QPL

  Who chooses the licence? Okay, you can solve this entire argument very easily. All you need to do is understand this: The author chooses the licence for their own software. Not for anyone elses....

• Modularity

  Some comments >there are generally two categories ofpeople: developers and users I think this is a bit too simple. For starters you have dedicated users and casual users, and those go into a...

• Security Issues of Auto-upgrades

  Why do you need to upgrade everything that often? It seems to me that updating a system every day (or even every week) is a good way to ensure you have an unstable system you can never get work don...

• Coding Standards: Good Idea or Subtle Evil?

  Evils and Goodness In my humble opinion, using any notation where you explicitly state the type of an entity in it's name is poor practice. To my mind, the reason for this can be best explaine...