Are there any positions open in HavenCo for security specialists? Also, how do people submit their content to the sites they buy on HavenCo anonymously? Is HavenCo going to set up some anonymous redirectors in various countries? -wabe
Almost all of MS's apps (Explorer for example) are all written with COM applets - this is one of their more basic tenets. It's not just so you can drag images onto spreadsheets, it's so they can write quality apps in 50 percent less time than netscape can. I personally think GNOME's usage of Corba is an essential aspect of Linux's being able to compete with Commercial development, despite the advantages of OSD.
How important is COM-like architecture? by Pike
It seems that the GNOME effort is throwing an awful lot of resources at a component-ized architecture (Bonobo) which aims to do for *nix what COM and ActiveX/OLE did for Windows. And yet it just doesn't seem necessary. I know it's possible for me to insert an Excel spreadsheet into a Word document, but I haven't used that feature in recent memory. None of the documents I exchange with co-workers do, either. Is Bonobo really very necessary? What does bonobo bring to the Linux desktop that users are crying out for, and how is its heavy consumption of development resources justified?
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Are there any positions open in HavenCo for security specialists? Also, how do people submit their content to the sites they buy on HavenCo anonymously? Is HavenCo going to set up some anonymous redirectors in various countries? -wabe
Almost all of MS's apps (Explorer for example)
are all written with COM applets - this is
one of their more basic tenets. It's not
just so you can drag images onto spreadsheets,
it's so they can write quality apps in 50 percent
less time than netscape can. I personally
think GNOME's usage of Corba is an essential
aspect of Linux's being able to compete
with Commercial development, despite the
advantages of OSD.
How important is COM-like architecture?
by Pike
It seems that the GNOME effort is throwing an awful lot of resources at a component-ized
architecture (Bonobo) which aims to do for *nix what COM and ActiveX/OLE did for
Windows. And yet it just doesn't seem necessary. I know it's possible for me to insert an
Excel spreadsheet into a Word document, but I haven't used that feature in recent memory.
None of the documents I exchange with co-workers do, either. Is Bonobo really very
necessary? What does bonobo bring to the Linux desktop that users are crying out for, and
how is its heavy consumption of development resources justified?