But this is only because Java is purely object-orientated. For me it is ok because those procedures or functions like printf are now owned by one class. For these cases the presence of macro support like in C would be quite helpful, but this is bad style, IMHO.
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Let us hope that the different projects out there that try to unify the most important things like filesystem hierarchy (Linux FHS) and the like succeed and that all vendors are smart enough to adopt them. Furthermore, the GNU project is the other essential part of the GNU/Linux OS. Because of this, both - kernel and the GNU part - would have to be split in order to generate a completely different distro. I do not think that any vendors is likely to maintain its own "port" of the GNU programs for its kernel.
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This only would happen if there is only _one_ good Linux tree. But what if there were two, the first one supported by five companies and the second one supported by five other companies, both with a large number of users? What if these two trees became incompatible? The Linux user base would be split...
I guess webpages or color displays designed by tetrachromats would seem perfect to trichromats as the first ones can find error the others can not. This must apply to everything that has to do with colors.
AFAIK, Eurasia is the (at least inofficial) name for the whole land from West-Europe to China. So it wouldn't be that wrong to put all the countries into "FSF-Eurasia". But from the organizational view, it would be better to split it info FSF-Europe and FSF-Asia, I must admit. That might also be good because the cultures and minds from west to east vary a lot.
If this is true, this is very bad news. During the last five years, I have made some experiences with organisations in which members are starting to build opposing groups - most of these organistions did not last long. It would be disgraceful for the open source world in Europe if FSF-Europe (or FSF-Eurasia) broke apart short after it has been founded.
This surely is good because it's getting easier form European programmers to identify themselves with this organisation. Sitting far away in the US, the FSF is "only" some good organisation over there that does good things but is not soooo important for us here in Europe, some programmers might think.
An alternative to the current (mis)use of the DNS would be great, but I don't think one could easily drop the current system and introduce a new one. It would have to be supported by most of the people on the net. On the other hand what if firms (e.g MS, AOL) started to support that, who could resists? Or maybe we get a second Internet finally...
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But this is only because Java is purely object-orientated. For me it is ok because those procedures or functions like printf are now owned by one class. For these cases the presence of macro support like in C would be quite helpful, but this is bad style, IMHO.
Let us hope that the different projects out there that try to unify the most important things like filesystem hierarchy (Linux FHS) and the like succeed and that all vendors are smart enough to adopt them. Furthermore, the GNU project is the other essential part of the GNU/Linux OS. Because of this, both - kernel and the GNU part - would have to be split in order to generate a completely different distro. I do not think that any vendors is likely to maintain its own "port" of the GNU programs for its kernel.
This only would happen if there is only _one_ good Linux tree. But what if there were two, the first one supported by five companies and the second one supported by five other companies, both with a large number of users? What if these two trees became incompatible? The Linux user base would be split...
I guess webpages or color displays designed by tetrachromats would seem perfect to trichromats as the first ones can find error the others can not. This must apply to everything that has to do with colors.
AFAIK, Eurasia is the (at least inofficial) name for the whole land from West-Europe to China. So it wouldn't be that wrong to put all the countries into "FSF-Eurasia". But from the organizational view, it would be better to split it info FSF-Europe and FSF-Asia, I must admit. That might also be good because the cultures and minds from west to east vary a lot.
If this is true, this is very bad news. During the last five years, I have made some experiences with organisations in which members are starting to build opposing groups - most of these organistions did not last long. It would be disgraceful for the open source world in Europe if FSF-Europe (or FSF-Eurasia) broke apart short after it has been founded.
This surely is good because it's getting easier form European programmers to identify themselves with this organisation. Sitting far away in the US, the FSF is "only" some good organisation over there that does good things but is not soooo important for us here in Europe, some programmers might think.
Imagine burglar put to flight by a barking Furby...
An alternative to the current (mis)use of the DNS would be great, but I don't think one could easily drop the current system and introduce a new one. It would have to be supported by most of the people on the net.
On the other hand what if firms (e.g MS, AOL) started to support that, who could resists?
Or maybe we get a second Internet finally...
Maybe that's just another weapon against M$ they are putting in out hands.
Let us wait what the customers say about this.