Company thoughts

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Andrew Carroll wrote:

> I can't say that I'm 'vaguely' interested in getting experience, I'm
> seeking any experience I can get.

Same here. Being unemployed doesn't stop me from programming and learning.

> I think what you may mean is that
> your vaguely interested in doing work without pay and I can't blame you!

Maybe "vaguely" wasn't the right word. I'm interested in anything that 
can get me a job, and if your idea can be made to work it might be an 
opportunity for me to get a job, and therefore I'm interested. It's not 
the same as thinking that your concept is particularly interesting 
compared to other ways of doing business. That's the difference I tried 
to express.

> It's all still very preliminary so your ideas are MOST welcomed!!  Did
> you have something in mind?

I have plenty of ideas for software I'd like to write, or that someone 
ought to write, if that's what you ask about. Whether one could make 
money from them, I don't know. Some of them may already exist 
unbeknownst to me. Some of them are:

· A replacement for atd and crond with more flexible scheduling abilities.

· An XML-based unified configuration file format for programs on 
Unix-like OSes, with accompanying configuration editors.

· A multi-purpose SIP user agent (for two-way and multi-way audio, video 
and text communication). A SIP user agent has to be permanently running 
on the user's home computer, listening for calls from the Internet, so 
it had better not have any buffer overflows, and therefore shouldn't be 
written in C.

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Björn Persson

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