From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Akbar A." To: Subject: info Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:56:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <309F4FC4705DC844987051A517E9E39B16EEBB@red-pt-02.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-05/msg00372.html hello. well I am _LEARNING_ a lot of info from gcc and it's source code. It seems that all i have been doing ;) my question is this, if you give away your source code isn't it possible that your competitors could see what you are doing? i know i am not a political person i am just a programmer, but how does that work? sorry for being o.t. it just seemed like a lot of you make a living off opensource code and working with companys that do not offer an ipo. do people pay you to write software code? isn't that what the company's employess are for? like my sister gets paid 44,000 us dollars every year to write manuals for adobe photoshop 5.0 ("technical writer") _EVEN_ though there is already awsome one in the online help in most of the works she writes about. she told me that the people that work with at the company are too arrogant to so and "look for online help". is this true? i guess what i need is a second opinion. But she also does a lot of bank software technical writing as well. again. sorry for being so o.t please e-mail me directly. peace, akbar A.