I think there's a simple language specification, and that is to be backwards compatible. That simple. What works on Python 1.4 should work on 1.5.2 and will also work with 2.0.
The publicity of this case, and the resulting political
statements surrounding this incident makes it very
interesting, I ask myself if this isn't to draw
attention from something else. Mr GW Bush himself
stated that (paraphrasing) "Some countries do
not share american values."
Linux is becoming a serious threat on the Desktop market, thanks to KDE and GNOME. Now, regarding the 'cute little icons'; the mail-handlers for KDE and GNOME will be (can't see no reason why not) standards compliant. The icons will not be viewable to the default KDE and GNOME mail-handlers. This way, a Windows user can say 'Hey, I have cool icons whenever John Doe sends mail to me', while the KDE/GNOME user cannot see them.
In other words, this is basically putting a frog in the water and turning up the heat..
Well, they get a strategic advantage when they incoporate the mail-client, the composer and the news-client, don't they? If you want goodies, you'll have to "buy" the whole package. Why should they give up that advantage? Remember, they think the browser is the platform; and it eventually will be (why is for example MS floating all internet standards in the most recent version of IE? to kill of true web-based ASPs), but at this point, email and news are key components for the average user; and it's too little bandwidth, not to mention CPU and time-limited internet access to go around, especially for the average user, to check email and news online.
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I think there's a simple language specification, and that is to be backwards compatible. That simple. What works on Python 1.4 should work on 1.5.2 and will also work with 2.0.
The publicity of this case, and the resulting political statements surrounding this incident makes it very interesting, I ask myself if this isn't to draw attention from something else. Mr GW Bush himself stated that (paraphrasing) "Some countries do not share american values."
Food for thought.
Linux is becoming a serious threat on the Desktop market, thanks to KDE and GNOME. Now, regarding the 'cute little icons'; the mail-handlers for KDE and GNOME will be (can't see no reason why not) standards compliant. The icons will not be viewable to the default KDE and GNOME mail-handlers. This way, a Windows user can say 'Hey, I have cool icons whenever John Doe sends mail to me', while the KDE/GNOME user cannot see them.
In other words, this is basically putting a frog in the water and turning up the heat..
Well, they get a strategic advantage when they incoporate the mail-client, the composer and the news-client, don't they? If you want goodies, you'll have to "buy" the whole package. Why should they give up that advantage? Remember, they think the browser is the platform; and it eventually will be (why is for example MS floating all internet standards in the most recent version of IE? to kill of true web-based ASPs), but at this point, email and news are key components for the average user; and it's too little bandwidth, not to mention CPU and time-limited internet access to go around, especially for the average user, to check email and news online.
Sorry if this is a bit garbled, but I'm tired.