While I don't disagree with the general thrust of this, there are examples of original open source programs; perhaps this would be a good place for folks to mention their favorites.
One I use a lot is called Gallery. It's a web photo gallery app written in PHP. It easy to use and has a nice feature set.
Or perhaps they'll fight the war by shifting the battlefield from the too-open PC platform to a tightly locked down console - the XBox or the consoles that follow it. If they can get enough "average" users onto such a platform - where they can control what software is run - they won't have to worry about open source. Obviously this only applies to the client, but then if their client software won't communicate with your open source server what kind of market will there be for that server?
I think that's how Microsoft will really try to take over the net.
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I don't know when gallery was first released, but I've been using it for about 2 years now.
Ray
While I don't disagree with the general thrust of this, there are examples of original open source programs; perhaps this would be a good place for folks to mention their favorites.
One I use a lot is called Gallery. It's a web photo gallery app written in PHP. It easy to use and has a nice feature set.
Ray
Or perhaps they'll fight the war by shifting the battlefield from the too-open PC platform to a tightly locked down console - the XBox or the consoles that follow it. If they can get enough "average" users onto such a platform - where they can control what software is run - they won't have to worry about open source. Obviously this only applies to the client, but then if their client software won't communicate with your open source server what kind of market will there be for that server?
I think that's how Microsoft will really try to take over the net.