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Talk To an Astute IT Industry Observer

Posted by Roblimo on from the swamis-of-silicon-valley dept.

Dan Gillmor is about as high on the IT journalist and industry pundit "respect" totem pole as you can get. Slashdot has linked to hundreds of his articles. What do you ask this veteran observer of the Silicon Valley scene? Whatever you like, one question per post. We'll email 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Dan 24 - 36 hours after this post goes up, and run his answers shortly after he gets them back to us.

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  1. Re:Microsoft .NET by rnd() · · Score: 3, Informative
    Most people who are asking "What is .NET" aren't looking very hard to find out. It's been pretty well publicized. You can download lots of info about it from the Microsoft homepage and from MSDN.

    Keep in mind that there is a strong incentive for Microsoft not to change the .NET API. If they did that, then there'd be the equivalent of DLL hell. This is why projects like Mono are going to be successful.

    I suggest taking a look at the concept. Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft, .NET is a step in the right direction. With Mono, there is no longer a legitimate complaint that it's not Open Source.

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  2. Re:What's up with the open relay? by davidu · · Score: 4, Informative
    Wrong guy

    You're thinking of John Gilmore.

    http://www.toad.com/~gnu (which appears down at the moment)


    -davidu
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