At least the.NET APIs should be better documented and more open than the current win32 API. So porting Office would be a matter of porting the runtime, and porting documented APIs. No reverse engineering.
Slashdot/Linux/Gnu etc aren't asking you to trust them with all your private data. Such as your passwords, purchasing habits, credit card details.
MS want to manage all of this data, and yet they clearly have a culture of dishonesty, a lack of ethics. Would you trust a bank that behaved like this?
Didn't it take the manufacturers a long time and a lot of argument to come to any agreement on the DVD standards? Not to mention the writable DVD formats.
After all that effort I can't see 90% of them just rolling over and accepting what MS says should be the format for DVD's.
An intranet isn't the same environment as the web. You said yourself that 92% of clients were IE, and on a corporate intranet you can get that number close to 100% just by mandating the use of a particular client.
But then you don't really need HTML. May as well go whole hog and use Lotus Notes, which has far more functionality for both the client and developer than any web browser currently available.
Small is a relative thing. Back in the days of 2400 bps modems and XT machines 1.44 MB was big - there will still many 360k floppy drives around, and a typical HD was only 10MB.
These days 1.44 MB is nothing, it's smaller than an MP3 file.
Zipslack is one of my favorite Linux distro's because at about 30MB zipped you can download it even on a flakey dialup in hours rather than days. Add a few more
200 MB would have been HUGE back in the old XT days, but these days it's a tiny fraction of the average HD.
The playlist manager software could (should) be different from the decoder/player. That way you could pipe it the output of things like cat, ls, grep and sort.
Some of the stuff that goes on in the US is illegal in many other countries. Collection of data without a persons knowledge, use of collected data for purposes other than the specified use, matching of different personal database - these are all illegal.
Unless the US shapes up it's privacy practices, a lot of US outfits will find themselves involved in foreign lawsuits.
What do "web services" have to do with anything anyway?
The average web user doen't want or need this stuff, they just want information (or entertainment). HTML,.JPG...
Web services will have a place - in B2B and other closed environments (and VPNs). But does open source really want to go down this road? Where's the fun in B2B?
They might be trying to use the precedent set by the deCSS case to try and prevent linking. But that was based on violations of the DCMA, not patent law.
Assuming that there even is a patent violation, is there anything in patent law that prevents linking to a patent violation?
It's time some webmasters wake up to the fact that users aren't always going to see a page the way they designed it, and in some cases users are going to deliberately re-arrange content.
If I want a program that puts extra links on pages then I'm damn well going to use it, and I don't care what webmasters think. If I want to remove adds, remove pictures, change colours, add frames, reduce the HTML to plain text, index it, sort it, or just generally mangle it then that should be up to me.
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You can also get residential access in most suburbs using Telstra/Saturn's cable network. Up to 2Mbps for $NZD110, about $50 US.
Rhino contains a Javascript API for Java.
MS want to manage all of this data, and yet they clearly have a culture of dishonesty, a lack of ethics. Would you trust a bank that behaved like this?
After all that effort I can't see 90% of them just rolling over and accepting what MS says should be the format for DVD's.
People porting? Is that like where you replace deadwood with shell scripts?
An intranet isn't the same environment as the web. You said yourself that 92% of clients were IE, and on a corporate intranet you can get that number close to 100% just by mandating the use of a particular client.
But then you don't really need HTML. May as well go whole hog and use Lotus Notes, which has far more functionality for both the client and developer than any web browser currently available.
These days 1.44 MB is nothing, it's smaller than an MP3 file.
Zipslack is one of my favorite Linux distro's because at about 30MB zipped you can download it even on a flakey dialup in hours rather than days. Add a few more
200 MB would have been HUGE back in the old XT days, but these days it's a tiny fraction of the average HD.
Anyone done any benchmarks on C++ and Java compiled using GCC?
IMHO.
Unless the US shapes up it's privacy practices, a lot of US outfits will find themselves involved in foreign lawsuits.
The average web user doen't want or need this stuff, they just want information (or entertainment). HTML, .JPG ...
Web services will have a place - in B2B and other closed environments (and VPNs). But does open source really want to go down this road? Where's the fun in B2B?
These days with wizards and even libraries the average "programmer" can't really program, all they do is paste a bunch of stuff together.
I would say that less than 1% of today's programmers could do the hard core stuff like design an efficient file storage system or a compiler.
http://www.wildtangent.com/developer/downloads/ove rviews/WebDriverOverview/index.html
Bypasses all the marketing fluff and explains what the product actually is.
Assuming that there even is a patent violation, is there anything in patent law that prevents linking to a patent violation?
Step 1. Check out which hardware works with OS
Step 2. Purchase said hardware and OS
Step 3. Install OS
Basic project management really.
It's time some webmasters wake up to the fact that users aren't always going to see a page the way they designed it, and in some cases users are going to deliberately re-arrange content. If I want a program that puts extra links on pages then I'm damn well going to use it, and I don't care what webmasters think. If I want to remove adds, remove pictures, change colours, add frames, reduce the HTML to plain text, index it, sort it, or just generally mangle it then that should be up to me.