Posted by
michael
on from the secrets-and-lies dept.
Tim writes "Tim Bray and Microsoft's Joe Marini are doing a back-and forth on Open Source. Tim serves (open everything), Joe returns (secret-source is good business) and Tim volleys (the closed-source niche is shrinking)."
My code is meant to be secret. If anyone ever saw it, I'd be ridiculed for my terrible coding style and lack of programming prowess. I don't think I could survive the shame.
My code is meant to be secret. If anyone ever saw it, I'd be ridiculed for my terrible coding style and lack of programming prowess. I don't think I could survive the shame.
"My code is meant to be secret. If anyone ever saw it, I'd be ridiculed for my terrible coding style and lack of programming prowess. I don't think I could survive the shame. -- Is that you, Mister Gates?"
No, he said that he created some software...
I think the point has been made. . .
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Betelgeuse
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Ha! Tim's page (the open-source advocate) is easily reachable, and is having no problems, but Joe's page seems to be experiencing a sounds slashdoting.
Excellent.
-- I couldn't tell if you were experimenting with poor-man's cryogenics or looking for the orange sherbet.
Re:I think the point has been made. . .
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imess
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because it's supposed to be "closed."
Re:I think the point has been made. . .
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BitwiseX
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The point that open source = more bandwidth and better servers?
Slashdot effect. Proof positive that open source is better!
Re:I think the point has been made. . .
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killmenow
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Yes, that's it! I bet the routers moving those packets between you and Tim's web site are all XORP. And all those routers between you and Joe's site are Cisco...That proves it!
Re:I think the point has been made. . .
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wildwood
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"All right, where is the answer? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you click and we both serve pages, and find out who is right, and who is slashdotted."
-- normal(adj)- people who don't sit on slashdot all day wondering why everyone else isn't building robots [DECS]
Re:I think the point has been made. . .
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ad0gg
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Its not getting a slashdotting. He's running win2K workstation instead of server and is only allowed 5 connections on IIS. Thats why IIS error message is very responsive and says forbidden and not a Server 500 error.
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Is Some Software Meant to be Secret?
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Anonymous Coward
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I would tell you, bet then I'd have to kill you.
Re:Is Some Software Meant to be Secret?
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radish
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Hmm. So +1 again for CuSeeme:)
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Some secrets are counter productive...
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DeVilla
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Take Joe's web page. It's so secret that I can't even read it. To many people are trying to veiw it right now. Of course, the secret would be better served if he had been more selective about who he let's in, instead of just setting a number of people who would be in on what he had to say.
More seriously, if a company can't beat a competing product by releasing open source, then I would assume the microsoft web server would be better and more popular than any open source web server. However, that doesn't seem to hold. Perhaps Joe has a response to that on his page. I'll have to wait until his (closed source) web server recovers to see.
Uh... was it wise to say this to Microsoft?
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Realistic_Dragon
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(The point about incompatible architecture is right, by the way; by analogy, if the OpenOffice guys could download all of the Microsoft Office source code tomorrow, it would probably slow them down more than help them.)
You heard it here first folks, Office 2k4 source code leak on Kazaa tomorrow from 'unknown source'...
-- Beep beep.
Re:Judging from the IIS error page in the second l
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BrynM
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Right, because we know both websites are hosted on hardware with equal processing power and available bandwidth.
<sarcasm>Maybe he just needs to buy more client licenses...</sarcasm>
-- US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
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Caint nobody make first post
Caint nobody mod me down
Oh no
I got to keep on postin
I think we have a winner.
Come on, that summary doesn't tell us anything. You want us to have to read the article or something?!
My code is meant to be secret. If anyone ever saw it, I'd be ridiculed for my terrible coding style and lack of programming prowess. I don't think I could survive the shame.
Ha! Tim's page (the open-source advocate) is easily reachable, and is having no problems, but Joe's page seems to be experiencing a sounds slashdoting.
Excellent.
I couldn't tell if you were experimenting with poor-man's cryogenics or looking for the orange sherbet.
I would tell you, bet then I'd have to kill you.
Take Joe's web page. It's so secret that I can't even read it. To many people are trying to veiw it right now. Of course, the secret would be better served if he had been more selective about who he let's in, instead of just setting a number of people who would be in on what he had to say.
More seriously, if a company can't beat a competing product by releasing open source, then I would assume the microsoft web server would be better and more popular than any open source web server. However, that doesn't seem to hold. Perhaps Joe has a response to that on his page. I'll have to wait until his (closed source) web server recovers to see.
(The point about incompatible architecture is right, by the way; by analogy, if the OpenOffice guys could download all of the Microsoft Office source code tomorrow, it would probably slow them down more than help them.)
You heard it here first folks, Office 2k4 source code leak on Kazaa tomorrow from 'unknown source'...
Beep beep.
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
Should code be secret? That is debatable and, in my opinion, would fall to an individual per code basis.
As for software. Yes, some of that should have been kept secret. WinME, Daikatana, and the Deer Hunter series all come to mind in this case.
Shhh... You're thinking too hard.
That kind of thing will only cause discontent.
linkg
BALEETED.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
That Microsoft keeps the source code for some of their products secret:
1) Visual Basic
2) Access
3) Bob
4) Outlook Express
5) IIS
6) Internet Explorer
Preferably, they would keep the source code a secret by destroying *ALL* copies and starting over again.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben