Humm...I don't get why people seem to think about "U.S. and the rest of the world" that often...it's not one big country (the U.S.) against another big country ("the rest of the world"), it's one country against many others.
First of all we have seen, that many countries - not only in the Arab world - are economically dependent of the U.S. and others are not. In fact that's probably what made the echoes to the USUK-Alliance so inconsistent.
Telling the U.S. to stick their patents where the sun don't shine would for many countries result in breaking treaties with the U.S - and not only with the U.S., as these treaties are multilateral. While the U.S. obviously doesn't care about international treaties - at least with Dubya as President - the U.S. can make _other_ countries care using economic measures. Though the damage the U.S. can do to countries differs, probably a large number of countries won't be game offending the U.S. by ignoring U.S.-patents.
I'm not a U.S. citizen and I'm rather pissed off by the rambo-like manners the U.S. shows in many international issues, yet when taking it realistically, the view "U.S. vs. the rest of the world" is just nonsense.
so what Billyboy claims is that when IE is removed, a programmer could not rely on any APIs provided by it? Hmmm...
firstly as stated by parent the controls programmers might use are essentially already included in those DLLs not necessarily requiring Internet Exploder...(it could be removed after all, so why not leave those independent on the system such as COMDLG32.DLL etc?)
secondly: Is it just me or is Gates considering in his mind that even more "modules" could be stripped off of Windows? Interesting thought. If he didn't, such an argument wouldn't make much sense as not much features would be "lost"... of course except his "superior development abilities" would be so short handed as to not detect the possibility above. He's also talking about software in plural and not in singular, which could strengthen this theory. Methinks that Windows is already pretty modular, but M$ just hid that from the user. Consider the money it would cost to manage two cersions of Win ME: a modular one and an integrated one. And for sure Gates is not the guy for dumping money when it's cheaper to trick the user...
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If I understand you right, this would mean e.g. if I have some yacc-definition file in my project, I need to include the yacc-definition(clear) and yacc's sourcecode? This sounds odd to me...
I love Linux and it's the OS of my choice but I won't fall apart and die when I have to use M$ stuff. I try to avoid it though as I have the impression that Linux software works better and is faster in most cases. I can't prove that, it's just my impression. And most big companies don't ever do a better job on coding Office software for Linux than M$ does for Windows. I'm glad to have StarOffice on Linux but w.r.t. speed M$ Winword seems to be faster.
Face it: It's a good job done writing an OS, be it by free-time developers or be it by M$ and people will go on using M$ software. The only problem is that M$ abuses it's market-power, saying "We want the best for the user" doing "We want the user to have no choice paying horrendous sums for our software". If their work is worth it pay developers high sums for their software but not because it's the only one you can get or because everybody uses it.
I won't tell you _that_ Java is archaic, but rather I'll tell you _why_. Ever used C++? Of course C++ is not compile-once-run-everywhere, but at least there's the possibility to separate the class interface declaration from class definition. Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK in Java every member function has to be fully defined within the class declaration, which makes the source definitely less readable than anything else.
I don't think Java fits for big applications, at least not without any of those big IDEs like JBuilder helping you to navigate the source. Java syntax, not Java in a whole, is a step back in IT, not a step forward!
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Humm...I don't get why people seem to think about "U.S. and the rest of the world" that often...it's not one big country (the U.S.) against another big country ("the rest of the world"), it's one country against many others.
First of all we have seen, that many countries - not only in the Arab world - are economically dependent of the U.S. and others are not. In fact that's probably what made the echoes to the USUK-Alliance so inconsistent.
Telling the U.S. to stick their patents where the sun don't shine would for many countries result in breaking treaties with the U.S - and not only with the U.S., as these treaties are multilateral. While the U.S. obviously doesn't care about international treaties - at least with Dubya as President - the U.S. can make _other_ countries care using economic measures. Though the damage the U.S. can do to countries differs, probably a large number of countries won't be game offending the U.S. by ignoring U.S.-patents.
I'm not a U.S. citizen and I'm rather pissed off by the rambo-like manners the U.S. shows in many international issues, yet when taking it realistically, the view "U.S. vs. the rest of the world" is just nonsense.
so what Billyboy claims is that when IE is removed, a programmer could not rely on any APIs provided by it? Hmmm...
... of course except his "superior development abilities" would be so short handed as to not detect the possibility above. He's also talking about software in plural and not in singular, which could strengthen this theory. Methinks that Windows is already pretty modular, but M$ just hid that from the user. Consider the money it would cost to manage two cersions of Win ME: a modular one and an integrated one. And for sure Gates is not the guy for dumping money when it's cheaper to trick the user...
firstly as stated by parent the controls programmers might use are essentially already included in those DLLs not necessarily requiring Internet Exploder...(it could be removed after all, so why not leave those independent on the system such as COMDLG32.DLL etc?)
secondly: Is it just me or is Gates considering in his mind that even more "modules" could be stripped off of Windows? Interesting thought. If he didn't, such an argument wouldn't make much sense as not much features would be "lost"
My 0.02EUR *g*
If I understand you right, this would mean e.g. if I have some yacc-definition file in my project, I need to include the yacc-definition(clear) and yacc's sourcecode? This sounds odd to me...
I love Linux and it's the OS of my choice but I won't fall apart and die when I have to use M$ stuff. I try to avoid it though as I have the impression that Linux software works better and is faster in most cases. I can't prove that, it's just my impression. And most big companies don't ever do a better job on coding Office software for Linux than M$ does for Windows. I'm glad to have StarOffice on Linux but w.r.t. speed M$ Winword seems to be faster.
Face it: It's a good job done writing an OS, be it by free-time developers or be it by M$ and people will go on using M$ software. The only problem is that M$ abuses it's market-power, saying "We want the best for the user" doing "We want the user to have no choice paying horrendous sums for our software". If their work is worth it pay developers high sums for their software but not because it's the only one you can get or because everybody uses it.
I won't tell you _that_ Java is archaic, but rather I'll tell you _why_. Ever used C++? Of course C++ is not compile-once-run-everywhere, but at least there's the possibility to separate the class interface declaration from class definition. Correct me if I'm wrong but AFAIK in Java every member function has to be fully defined within the class declaration, which makes the source definitely less readable than anything else.
I don't think Java fits for big applications, at least not without any of those big IDEs like JBuilder helping you to navigate the source. Java syntax, not Java in a whole, is a step back in IT, not a step forward!