On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:59:56 -0500, Linonut wrote:
> Just a quick opinion question. Anybody use Boost and Intel's Thread
> Building Blocks? Any key differences? Have any preference?
>
> Intel has open-sourced their commercial product under GPLv2 with a
> run-time exception (July of last year, it looks like). This article
> talks about it:
>
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/5894
>
> Poor Roy gets dinged, though:
>
> Roy Schestowitz got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning:
>
> Nice publicity stunt, but everyone already knows that Intel
> doesn't give a **** about open source (unless it means money)
> ...
> Doesn't Intel have another charitable not-for-profit
> project to sabotage today? And trust me, I say this
> because I know. Intel deserves this treatment because it
> has earned it over time. Not to mention monopoly abuse
> and many misuses that directly hurt rivals, destruction
> of E-mails (court evidence), fake benchmarks... [more]
>
And BTW look at the digg rating he got on that one -33, which is actually
higher than he usually gets for the extreme end of his paranoia.
He's been up in the -1xx numbers several times.
It must be those same 3 people he accuses of following him around and
modding down his comments.
Each one must have voted 11 times.
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