I think what this really points to is that XML is not the end-all, be-all of formats for exchanging data. All that XML does is bring structured data formats to where databases were in the late 70s (when the Relational model began to take off). Just as databases took the path from flat files to indexed files, to heirarchical databses, to relational database; XML is just the next step in the path from fixed with columns, to delimited values, to key/value pairs, to XML. We need at least one more revolutionary change before the transmission structures (XML) catch up to the live datastores (Relational Databases).
Maybe I don't get it, but how is what this company did (building a closed product based on Linux and other GPL components) different from what TiVo did? And if they're not different, why isn't everyone rallying against TiVo to get their source mods?
Tandem did this years ago. Their first machines (some time in the 1970s) were CISC. In the early 1990s they changed the hardware architecture and changes the CPUs to RISC. Code compiled for the same version of the OS on a CISC would run interpreted if the machine it was running on had RISC CPUs. Granted, native compiled RISC code ran faster, and it wasn't binary-compatible across major version changes of the OS. But it is basically the same.
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when I first saw the title I thought I said "NRA vs RIAA". Now that's a matchup I want to see....
It isn't too late. You can help save Firefly. http://www.fireflysupport.com/ is the home of the Firefly support campaign.
NTBugtraq is actually part of TruSecure, not SecurityFocus. What SecurityFocus has in a separate list called BugTraq. Very confusing...
I suggest checking out Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. It is available in both online and print versions (in addition to being a fantastic read).
I think what this really points to is that XML is not the end-all, be-all of formats for exchanging data. All that XML does is bring structured data formats to where databases were in the late 70s (when the Relational model began to take off). Just as databases took the path from flat files to indexed files, to heirarchical databses, to relational database; XML is just the next step in the path from fixed with columns, to delimited values, to key/value pairs, to XML. We need at least one more revolutionary change before the transmission structures (XML) catch up to the live datastores (Relational Databases).
Maybe I don't get it, but how is what this company did (building a closed product based on Linux and other GPL components) different from what TiVo did? And if they're not different, why isn't everyone rallying against TiVo to get their source mods?
Tandem did this years ago. Their first machines (some time in the 1970s) were CISC. In the early 1990s they changed the hardware architecture and changes the CPUs to RISC. Code compiled for the same version of the OS on a CISC would run interpreted if the machine it was running on had RISC CPUs. Granted, native compiled RISC code ran faster, and it wasn't binary-compatible across major version changes of the OS. But it is basically the same.