Software release philosophy (was Re: open source crap was Re:

[Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner]

It was thus said that the Great der Mouse once stated:
> 
> > So, as Roger said, why should you put a moral bent on a personal
> > choice?  Because that's exactly what you're doing.
> 
> See my reply to Roger.  Most briefly, because I believe such choices
> hold back the state of the art, and thus harm society as a whole - at
> which point it becomes a moral issue.

  Not to denigrate the work that Dave has done, but it isn't "state of the
art"---it's just programming the floppy controller to read different format
disks and store the resulting data into a neutral format.  

  No, state of the art is Google, what with their Google File System and
their Map/Reduce engine, none of which is available (some information yes,
but not actual code).

  -spc (Hmmm ... this dead horse is beginning to smell ... )