You must be able to write coherent, organized code and be comfortable working on a complicated code-base with high levels of abstraction.
If used, your offering will have a reliance on the security and stability of third-party base code which is out of your control.
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That makes Canadian Dreams and Magics a whole hell of a lot more useful to business users than the G1s down in the States, and going forward, this is an issue T-Mobile probably wants to think about -- as long as the base Android code doesn't license ActiveSync, anyway.
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Moreover, with OS X, Apple has a base of stable, well-understood code that allows it to add incremental improvements, on a regular basis, for years.
With OS X, Apple has a base of stable, Unix-based code, making it easy for Apple to plop down small improvements on a regular basis.
The state and federal tax code are so laced with tax credits and exemptions that any base-broadening, rate-cutting reform is bound to raise taxes on someone.
Symantec also noticed that this pre-1.0 malware shares traits with the Flamer code base, putting it in the context of an even larger effort than seen so far.
Making the code less complicated and more efficient may not achieve the rate-cutting, base-broadening reform many want.
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In April 1996, the Israeli armed forces launched an operation code-named "Grapes of Wrath", which was intended to wipe out Hezbollah's base in southern Lebanon.
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President Obama's own deficit reduction commission, on which I served -- the Simpson-Bowles commission -- followed this template of lowering tax rates and broadening the base by getting rid of spending in the code.
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