Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004)

Re:Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004) by xiaoma on Sunday February 05, 2017 @05:04AM (#13571679)

Wikipedia benefits just about everybody with an internet connection and they sure don't make a billion dollars a year. The same could be said of open source devs who contribute to core projects running our internet.

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Re:Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004) by mdpopescu on Sunday February 05, 2017 @06:58AM (#13571990)

You're talking about the opposite of what I said. My implication was

1 billion USD revenue => benefiting everybody

Yours is

Benefiting everybody => 1 billion USD revenue

I stand by the first but not by the second.

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Re:Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004) by xiaoma on Sunday February 05, 2017 @08:29AM (#13572325)

You said: "A is the definition of B"

I said: "Here are some Bs that are not A"

If you had said the definition of a kangaroo was "a big marsupial from Australia" and I pointed out many kangroos that weren't actually big marsupials from Australia, It would suggest that the definition was flawed.

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Re:Nullsoft: The death of the last maverick tech company (2004) by mdpopescu on Monday February 06, 2017 @03:55AM (#13577712)

> You said: "A is the definition of B" > I said: "Here are some Bs that are not A"

Yes, and I pointed out that the two are unrelated.

> If you had said the definition of a kangaroo was "a big marsupial from Australia" and I pointed out many kangroos that weren't actually big marsupials from Australia, It would suggest that the definition was flawed.

If I had said that the definition of an A (kangaroo) is a B (big marsupial), and you pointed out that many As (kangaroos) aren't Bs (big marsupials), I would have been proven wrong.

However, I said A (companies making a billion dollars in revenue) implies B (they benefit a lot of people) and you pointed out some Bs (companies benefiting everyone) that aren't As (companies making a billion dollars in revenue), which is irrelevant.

This is basic logic, I learned it in fifth grade. A => B is not a commutative operation.

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