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This all sounds like nice possibilities for Mozilla (andother alternative browsers) to block those annoying ads in their default setup. Maybe M$ Internet Explorer might catch up one day, but I'm not waiting for that!;-p
I'm not too well known to the US laws, but selling your goods while losing money to kill competition IS illegal hier in Belgium. And allthough it might be many braindead and insane laws down here, I can hardly believe no other countries have the same rule.
But on the other hand, I wouldn't call MS' move "dumping", but just choosing the only option they have..;-p
Microsoft buying and owning all RedHat patents looks like an evil thing to me for sure. On the other hand, as far as I see in the patent description (I'm not the expert), the credits are put on Ingo's name, and not the RedHat company, so, I hope this is a non-issue.
You are right that languages are often mixed because of legacy code, and mixing languages can create maintanance issues.
But, those issues can be reduced if a proper the entire system is properly design, with clean and well documented interfaces.
And performance IS an issue, but only in certain, often small sections of the entire code base. Rapid development in a protoyping language as Python, and optimizing using compiled C modules does not sound like a bad idea to me.
Time you win during the development cycle can be well spend in the important testing and refactoring stages.
And don't worry, in larger projects, refactoring WILL be needed.;-p
Have you ever been thinking that maintaining the stable 2.4 kernel series could be *really* boring? All the exciting, new development probably happens in the development versions, are you sure you won't miss a lot of fun?
IIRC, the delay for introducing the 2.4 kernel into current distributions is due to some significant, needed changes in userland. Upgrading a distribution from 2.2.6 to 2.2.12 is much easier than going from 2.2.x to 2.4.y.
I strongly believe most distributions can offer easily installed, upgraded 2.4 kernels once they have made the transition.
BTW, what is obvious for one system, is not for another one. It's obious that a PC has a floppy drive? Sure, that's the reason why the M$ Win95 setup hangs on my PC..
You are completely right that kernel configuration is much too hard for the end user, but this is the price we have to pay for the flexibility and the lack of binary standarisation. Linus preferred not to stick to binary interfaces because they usually slow down development.
Distributions serve to deliver good, all purpose kernels, it's not the kernel developper's task to have a wide range of compiled kernels available.
Don't fight the battle in court, but get your ass moving and show the open source or free source community can do a better job.
This is all about software quality and freedom. If some persons prefer to stick with locked and inferior software, so be it. At least we need to provide a descent alternative.
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This all sounds like nice possibilities for Mozilla (andother alternative browsers) to block those annoying ads in their default setup. Maybe M$ Internet Explorer might catch up one day, but I'm not waiting for that! ;-p
I'm not too well known to the US laws, but selling your goods while losing money to kill competition IS illegal hier in Belgium. And allthough it might be many braindead and insane laws down here, I can hardly believe no other countries have the same rule.
.. ;-p
But on the other hand, I wouldn't call MS' move "dumping", but just choosing the only option they have
Microsoft buying and owning all RedHat patents looks like an evil thing to me for sure. On the other hand, as far as I see in the patent description (I'm not the expert), the credits are put on Ingo's name, and not the RedHat company, so, I hope this is a non-issue.
You are right that languages are often mixed because of legacy code, and mixing languages can create maintanance issues.
;-p
But, those issues can be reduced if a proper the entire system is properly design, with clean and well documented interfaces.
And performance IS an issue, but only in certain, often small sections of the entire code base. Rapid development in a protoyping language as Python, and optimizing using compiled C modules does not sound like a bad idea to me.
Time you win during the development cycle can be well spend in the important testing and refactoring stages.
And don't worry, in larger projects, refactoring WILL be needed.
Have you ever been thinking that maintaining the stable 2.4 kernel series could be *really* boring? All the exciting, new development probably happens in the development versions, are you sure you won't miss a lot of fun?
Or am I a bit too pessimistic?
IIRC, the delay for introducing the 2.4 kernel into current distributions is due to some significant, needed changes in userland. Upgrading a distribution from 2.2.6 to 2.2.12 is much easier than going from 2.2.x to 2.4.y.
..
I strongly believe most distributions can offer easily installed, upgraded 2.4 kernels once they have made the transition.
BTW, what is obvious for one system, is not for another one. It's obious that a PC has a floppy drive? Sure, that's the reason why the M$ Win95 setup hangs on my PC
You are completely right that kernel configuration is much too hard for the end user, but this is the price we have to pay for the flexibility and the lack of binary standarisation. Linus preferred not to stick to binary interfaces because they usually slow down development.
Distributions serve to deliver good, all purpose kernels, it's not the kernel developper's task to have a wide range of compiled kernels available.
Don't fight the battle in court, but get your ass moving and show the open source or free source community can do a better job.
This is all about software quality and freedom. If some persons prefer to stick with locked and inferior software, so be it. At least we need to provide a descent alternative.