Week of Feb 17
Week 6:
Monday
Each team should select a reporter, who is supposed to file a brief report on Sakai every Friday. Usually this is one person, but it can be a rotating position. Only one person on each team has to file the report.
Reports should discuss progress, eg on selecting a project, on deciding on what changes to make, on understanding the code, on implementing your changes.
Open Source as a business"Open Core"
Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems: "Open Source is free like a puppy is free"
Wednesday
Android calculator: much more complicated than you thought. chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app.
The designer, Hans-J Boehm, didn't use floating-point arithmetic. Instead he used a mix of:
As a result, sin(pi) displays as 0, not 0.0000000, and 10^100 + 1 - 10^100 displays as 1.
Google and Android, Chromium
How do these factors play out in the success of Linux?
A third factor is Torvalds' policy on contributions: all are welcome, but they start out as non-mainline extensions, patches or modules.
386BSD