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Whit Diffie Comments On .NET security

Posted by timothy on from the lack-thereof dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Whit Diffie and Susan Landu (both of Sun Microsystems) comment on why .NET is a bad idea and is in many ways in conflict with the US political struture and ideals." This is a good read, but of course Sun has their own plans and motivations in this field.

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  1. Solid arguments by the_rev_matt · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In spite of the blatant vested interest of Sun, the piece is a studied and accurate indictment of the .Net initiative.

    I would still like to see something like this come from someplace like Gartner as well, however.

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  2. Propietarity by Khopesh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why one propietary language should be used over another ... kind of misses the point. I say they're both bad due to being closed and propietary.

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    1. Re: Propietarity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Cept that, in being an open standard, the .NET stuff is less proprietary than Java.

  3. What if? by programic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sometimes I wonder what we'd all think of Sun if they were in the dominant position that Microsoft is currently in.

    Even more interesting, I wonder how they would treat their competitors (and competitors ideas). It would be a different Sun, that's for sure.

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  4. It will never happen by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    MS seems to be pushing this ".NET" thing very hard, but it seems like it's just vaporware, a name for whatever the "latest and greatest" from MS is. However, they seem to be up to something with XP and Passport, but I don't think it's going to go very far, because developers aren't going to spend the time to make something for this market share, because from the looks of it, XP isn't topping the sales charts.

  5. Read down to the bottom of the article by Pinball+Wizard · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Diffie is also the co-inventor of public-key cryptography.


    He's not "just a Sun employee" with a chip on his shoulder, he is a giant in his field. Give the guy the respect he deserves.

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  6. Re: Proprietarity by sacrilicious · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Cept that, in being an open standard, the .NET stuff is less proprietary than Java.



    Huh? Not. Sun has been completely open about every aspect of java; you can right now go and download the source for the jvms, the spec of the jvms, the source of J2EE and all the other layers of libraries... whereas Microshaft is only releasing the source to about 10% of their libraries. The main reason sun hasn't ushered java through the standards committee is because Micro$oft has too much influence over the process, and would doubtless try to warp java into something other than "the right thing".

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