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> Richard Stallman ... and for never selling out.

One thing you might try is to start by writing some small CGI webapps/scripts. Later on, it will give you an appreciation of what the frameworks are actually doing for you. Also, i…

> Get yourself a new job Not always so easy.

My guess is that tech companies like recent grads because they can get away with paying less ("interns welcome!"), and also the employee is usually not married and doesn't have kid…

I'm not so sure that liberal licensing leads to popularity. One obvious counter-example of your supposition is GNU/Linux vs. BSD. Incidentally, the last thing the FSF is worried ab…

> Anyone have any preference for licenses? From what I've seen, projects that go GPL tend to be more community-focused, and seem to more readily gather a contributor community arou…

I've got a friend who wants to start up a website. He's already got the domain, the idea, and needs admin and webdev help. But there's no business entity yet. He wants to include m…

Yeah, I don't get it either, nailer. Massive insecurity, I guess. I routinely notice when someone is smarter than me, or has a better memory than me, or who can visualize complex l…

I dunno. I think taking advice from successful business people is hit-or-miss. Sometimes they're successful because they're good, and other times because they were at the right pla…

Regarding finding a "co-founder"... could you please elaborate on what that means? That is, I'm someone who might be interested in getting together with someone with complementary …

Any sufficiently complicated developer contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Paul Graham.