Actually it is a contract not a law.
there are laws regarding contracts and what makes a binding contract, etc... but the actuall license is just a contract between the software company and the entity using the software.
That equation for velocity addition seems a little off. If V1 = 100 and V2=20 then the additive velocity is like 400E-9. That seems a little low to me.
I think you pretty much missed the point of the previous comment, which was that while closed source can provide one more step in breaking a system, Microsofts stuff is so poorly written that it's wouldn't be possible to open their source without causing serious security problems.
(note: at one time opening the source to windows was a punishment being considered in the antitrust trial and MS said it would cause all these security issues.)
So everyone hates MS OSes, but they have a decent IDE in VS.NET. It has that compressible comment feature you want. Also a really nice feature that allows you to define regions of code which are collapsable.
there is an open source C# IDE, with the above features here. Of course if you want to develop for linux your going to have to wait on the Mono project.
While this currently only applies to C#, it could obviously be implemented in other languages.
Actually Dell was going to sell BeOS only machines, then they found the no competing OS clause in the MS OEM agreement.
Think MS doesn't prevent competition... Think again.
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Actually it is a contract not a law. there are laws regarding contracts and what makes a binding contract, etc... but the actuall license is just a contract between the software company and the entity using the software.
That equation for velocity addition seems a little off. If V1 = 100 and V2=20 then the additive velocity is like 400E-9. That seems a little low to me.
I think you pretty much missed the point of the previous comment, which was that while closed source can provide one more step in breaking a system, Microsofts stuff is so poorly written that it's wouldn't be possible to open their source without causing serious security problems. (note: at one time opening the source to windows was a punishment being considered in the antitrust trial and MS said it would cause all these security issues.)
So everyone hates MS OSes, but they have a decent IDE in VS.NET. It has that compressible comment feature you want. Also a really nice feature that allows you to define regions of code which are collapsable.
there is an open source C# IDE, with the above features here. Of course if you want to develop for linux your going to have to wait on the Mono project.
While this currently only applies to C#, it could obviously be implemented in other languages.
Actually Dell was going to sell BeOS only machines, then they found the no competing OS clause in the MS OEM agreement. Think MS doesn't prevent competition... Think again.