Bush is right now breaking international laws as he invades a country without support from the security council. That is illegal and the US has condemned such actions before when done by others.
The CIA have in fact helped several guerillas in their cocain/drugs business. You can look it up by yourself since it is an official fact ran numerous times in american tv and press.
The jews are nothing nere taking over the world and i dont view jews as a bad people or jewism as a bad religion. Zionists on the other hand is as bad as the naziz and should be dealt with by the jews for the sake of the jews. The zionists are giving the legit jews a bad reputation around the world. Same goes to the fucked up israeli racist government who tries to build a new South Africa.
"For nearly two weeks, he has been held as a so-called "material witness" in solitary confinement in a federal lockup in Sheridan, Oregon. The designation allows authorities to hold him indefinitely without charging him with a crime."
With tools like that, who needs dictatorships? Just lockup anyone likely to compete about power of state. No chance of getting caught since everything is stamped "top secret". You simply cannot lay power like that in the hands of people. No matter what it WILL be abused!
The US is imploding far faster than anyone would imagine. Remember how Rome fell and why for a cluebat.
This is just what Computing needs. While this may not be the best way to do programming it does lend itself to brainstorming. As a way to solve problems and such it sounds very nice.
More strange ideas and crazy apps will by statistics bring out those killer apps that has been absent for a while.
I have a huge collection of cd's and i have ripped them all to my HD for comfort. It so easy to use the computer for listening. I'm now used to not having the hassle with cd's. If cd's become copy protected and i cant rip them i will be forced to break the DCMA to rip them. Well, if i am breaking the law then why not stop buying cd's?
They fail to understand that this mesure will give 180 degree opposite effect. People like me will buy LESS records.
Chalk another pirate up, you just manufactured one more who wont buy any more cd's Arista!
Imagine this. What if CNN FOX et.c is the ones pulling the damndest lies? Drawing conclusions from the Afghanistan war Al-Jazeera was one of the most correct media outlet while US based spewed propaganda news. In my opinion you should read them all and do a diff, then you get a pretty nice knowledge. If you just listen to CNN you arent getting the whole picture.
Ehh, thats like, built into every firewall worth the byte they are written on. A firewall that only checks source and destination can be replaced by a couple of lines in the company router.
You have obviuosly never ever used a pneumatic hammer with 100 nail magazine!
I used one when i built my house and it saved me both thumbs and half the time.
Maybe windows is the (sigh, spelling sucks) equivalent (did i get that right?) of an old hammer and the rest of us is waiting and working towards the pneumatic hammer?
(then again i have rarely seen a hammer fail as often as windows. Come to think of it, Microsoft is to windows what a hammer is to glass!
Re:War in Iraq is the only moral solution.
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You Americans have an ignorance level that is amazing.
"Good luck not using any American products. That limits your Linux needs to nothing but SuSe."
Heh, well first, contrary to your belief there are a bunch of dists not originating from the US. Second since linux is 100% free or at the very least very cheap i dont really give away loads of money if i dont want too.
Hey, newsflash, linux isnt an all american product;D
Bush couldnt give more of a fuck about his people. He is protecting the big corporations.
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I did not state that they werent evil. They are infact very smart since they got USA to do the exact thing they wanted when they wiped thosw towers out. It wasnt some crazed one minute attack but something planned for years, both the performance and the outcome of the 11 september attack was infact planned by al-queda. (note, al-queda and the talibans is NOT the same thing)
"e are defending something, we are defending the Iraqi people's freedom and their right to live without the threat of being tortured o" "disappearing" due to their political beliefs"
That must be the biggest line of bullshit i have ever read. How many al-quada people right now sitting in a camp in US because of political beliefs? No trial no accussasions no chance of defending themselves.
Morals has nothing to do with this war. Why do you think the US goes after a joke of an army like the iraq when North korea has killed far more people and impose far worse tactics against opposition than iraq could ever dream of? North Korea even has nuclear weapons now. But then again, they dont have any oil have they?
Get your head out of the sand and try getting a grip on what is happening out there. This is our childrens future and not ours we are talking about. Those kids is going to inherit what we sow today. The only thing this war is going to accompplish is making it a hell of a alot easier to recruit terrorists in the future. This time they will have it pretty easy to recruit even white people wich in my perception would be far more dangerous. IF that should come true you cant easily sort em out by name or skin coulour.
The world will be a much more dangerous place and i dont want to leave that as a legacy to my kids, do you?
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Maybe because the warmongers doesnt have a single shred of evidence or facts to back the war up with now that the UN has rejected it as wrong?
Whip out some facts (not "news facts") and you will be modded correctly.
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War is never and has never ever been the only solution unless you are attacked and have to defend yourself. Violence breeds more violence. The goal with the 11 September attack was stated by the al-queda to bring out USA in the open. They arent stupid fucks those fundamentalist muslims if you judge them by their skills in politics. Their total lack of respect for human lives is totally unacceptable but still they are pretty smart. USA swallowed the bate hook, sink and line without any thought whatsoever.
Before most of us thought of the US as a great country defending democracy in most cases and making some stupid mistakes like Vietnam way back. The perception of USA had improved over last 15 last years. Now they have blown all that goodwill to hell.
I will never ever buy an american product again. I wont support war, neither directly or indirectly.
There wasnt any 12 years of broken resolutions. The UN inspectors from the USA was spying heavily on iraq (as they did in EU parliament but thats another story) and thus iraq kicked them out demanding that no US would be allowed to inspect but all other naitons was welcome. The UN then bowed to USA and withdraw all inspectors saying that they wore kicked out.
12 years of broken resolutions you say? Well i sure hope the biggest breaker of UN resolutions get the bomb then, do you know wich it is? Guess, its a close US ally in the same region.
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I know im about to blow my carma and i dont care. This is the most stupid thing the States has done since slavery. Sure Saddam is a fucking dictator and sure he should go. But is the USA mature enough to take on the responsibility? I dont think so and it is widely believed that this war has nothing to do with dictoatorships an everything to do with omney and power over the oil. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdWo rld/di ctators.html http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Cards_In dex.html Why in fucks name should they install an american as a leader on arab soil when endless amount of opposition is prepared and come from good educations out being refugees in european countries? I think that USA wants to install an America friendly puppet gov in iraq.
Whats next, China, Israel, Cuba, North Korea, Mocambique, Germany or France?
This war has no legatimicy whatsoever and is an attack without reason. Am mad as hell and if I am mad as hell think how people thinks in arab countries? This if anything is going to bring out endless streams of terrorists raving mad and pissed of at USA. Even if they are liberated they arent happy at all with how and why that happen in iraq either.
USA wanted war on terrorism and they have just begun recruting terrorists for the opposite side, stupid fucks!
Then we have the issue of civil war in iraq/turkue. Half of kurdistan is in iraq and half of it in turkue. Both the turks and Saddam have been threating the kurds as garbage and there will be an uprising if the turks invade northen iraq, from the kurds. This war creates terrorism and instability wich is precisely what the USa set out to reduce.
Is USA that stupid? I really dont think so. Something else is behind this, money and power. The terrorists obviously succeded in what they set out for in September 11, make USA behaive like assholes. Now they have a fresh supply of eager people willing to die for their rights.
PS I dont hate Americans but something i hate is warmongers. DS
Shared Source has nothing to do with any new policy or some sudden change in behavior. Its just an attempt in keeping the remaining developers hooked onto MS and stop the massive stampeede onto linux and others.
MS have clearly shown that they will grab for any field in PC they think is profitable. Using their OS as a battering ram into the market they have suceeded with this many times. I am pretty sure that they have misintrepret why developers go to open source. If it wasnt open source it would have been something else. The main point is that they want away from MS. Where they go from that isnt important. Making Shared Source into a license that only benefit MS wont lure many developers back thats for sure. Especielly since MS is knowned for their mumbo jumbo licenses with smallprint in the size of kvarks.
Not to diss the authors hard work but who would want the Windows look and feel? Its old, badly engineered and is a disaster from a humanistic view. Intuitive? Not bloody likely!
I can see that it could do some benefit the first period for a linux n00b but it already exists enviroments very alike Windows in linux.
Well, if people can put time into copying a terrible GUI maybe some other people will start making something better than Xerox did. The whole desktop analogy feels somehow out of date today.
American companies have to compete against highly skilled companies in other countries. Up until you have had money enough to buy inventions, companies and innovations from abroad. Ofcourse that cant be forever. When these countries start to manufacture things instead of just selling all bright ideas abroad they can compete very hard against USA. Since American labour is more expensive the competing products is all the same but one bears a higher pricetag. Since USA has lost its headstart in knowledge it has to start competing on a more or less even playfield. To do that USA needs to be cheaper at manufacturing, take the auto industry as a good example of that. The asians ran circles around GM.
Either some very silly laws stalling the invention climate needs to be removed or big lossess of jobs will be a fact.
It may come as a surprise to most of you americans but the school system you have isnt the best in the world anymore. The invention climate is also a minefield where it sometimes isnt worth the hassle to capitalise a perfectly sellable product due to stupid patents and other IP laws.
How can something that costs almost nothing fund anything? A pirate cant really get prime payment for pirated gods so i dont see how this would be a big cashcow. It seems that everything is a terrorist. The big rubberstamp is out giving license to do anything to the poor sod it is used on.
Not one single idiot in upper management in the USA seems to wonder WHY in gods name someone becomes a terrorist? Can it be that that 12 year old who saw his house be torned down without trial, rason or sanity becomes a terrorist in Palestine? The countless people who will have relatives killed in iraq, will they love USA more after they have bombed them to pieces and installed a capitalistic gov ran by USA sucking natural resources and giving nothing back like in latin america?
Pirating where people copy instead of buying is more of a problem. But hey, if anyone sucessfully target that kind of pirating we will se an enormous uptake in open source software. How many Windows users can say they dont have one app installed that is either pirated or misused shareware?
Methinks SCO is in for a slaughter. Perens dissection of the complaint is impressive to say the least. If half of it is proved in court SCO has no case whatsoever.
His skills and knowledge is very valuable to us and i think many people underestimate just how important people like Bruce Perens is to the open source community.
What i want is a slick empty GUI when i start setting my workstation up. Gnome is what suits me the best right now. I fleed bloat and tight integration in the windows world and im not going to just pickup different branded bloat from KDE. Someone else likes many buttons and for him KDE is better. Dont get me wrong, i love KDE to but it isnt what i want.
All in all i think the competition between KDE and GNOME is very healthy. What wee need to refrain from is mudslinging and bashing.
This is the reason that i prefer Scribus, Gimp and others over Open Office/MS Office etc for my work. The reason is that applications made to do everything including taking the dog for a walk is always halfgood at what they do. Single applications made for one specifik purpose doesnt have those problems. Having separated applications is also something that spurs interoperability and standards adherence. I really want to be able to swap out any of the applications i use without having to change the fileformat and export/import everything.
I think the best approach would be better adherance to standars in the open source community. We should develop and adopt standards for every format of documents avaliable and tout them harder than ever. The MS format lockin must be broken from within MS own user base and that can be possible if every other company and entityoutside MS supports an open standard.
Well maybe now Miguel will realize he is just a brick in Microsofts game? I like the mono projekt on its technical merits but its just wasted efforts considering what MS is going to do when they feel Mono is more a threat than a PR gain.
Well my belief is that MS lets Miquel have his fun until enough userbase is established on windows and then just screw him over so bad he wont sit for a year. Mono is not something i support because it is controlled by MS wich spells bad considering how well previous teaming with them have been for others. They have a bad habit of screwing every partner over and i cant imagine why they would stop at Mono, do you?
Until MS goes out and develops their own linux client i think they are just happy that someone is working for them for free getting them some good PR to the cross platform pitch (wich i think is bs la grande). When thats over, boot!
What use is it when it doesnt run on anything but windows? Many scientists run linux and other stuff nowadays so its pretty insane doing a client that doesnt run on anything but windows.
I detest using anything that isnt cross platform friendly. When the next OS comes i dont want to stand there with my corporate pants down.
Why is it so hard making applications truly cross plattform? Technology?
You already know the answer, the removal of the applications barrier is the biggest threat to Microsoft today..net is an effort at keeping that barrier onto the future. I say good luck to Miguel when MS dicides it has enough desciples to boot on.net.
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Heh, pretty funny you mentioned that.
Bush is right now breaking international laws as he invades a country without support from the security council. That is illegal and the US has condemned such actions before when done by others.
The CIA have in fact helped several guerillas in their cocain/drugs business. You can look it up by yourself since it is an official fact ran numerous times in american tv and press.
The jews are nothing nere taking over the world and i dont view jews as a bad people or jewism as a bad religion. Zionists on the other hand is as bad as the naziz and should be dealt with by the jews for the sake of the jews. The zionists are giving the legit jews a bad reputation around the world. Same goes to the fucked up israeli racist government who tries to build a new South Africa.
"For nearly two weeks, he has been held as a so-called "material witness" in solitary confinement in a federal lockup in Sheridan, Oregon. The designation allows authorities to hold him indefinitely without charging him with a crime."
With tools like that, who needs dictatorships? Just lockup anyone likely to compete about power of state. No chance of getting caught since everything is stamped "top secret". You simply cannot lay power like that in the hands of people. No matter what it WILL be abused!
The US is imploding far faster than anyone would imagine. Remember how Rome fell and why for a cluebat.
This is just what Computing needs. While this may not be the best way to do programming it does lend itself to brainstorming. As a way to solve problems and such it sounds very nice.
More strange ideas and crazy apps will by statistics bring out those killer apps that has been absent for a while.
I have a huge collection of cd's and i have ripped them all to my HD for comfort. It so easy to use the computer for listening. I'm now used to not having the hassle with cd's. If cd's become copy protected and i cant rip them i will be forced to break the DCMA to rip them. Well, if i am breaking the law then why not stop buying cd's?
They fail to understand that this mesure will give 180 degree opposite effect. People like me will buy LESS records.
Chalk another pirate up, you just manufactured one more who wont buy any more cd's Arista!
Imagine this. What if CNN FOX et.c is the ones pulling the damndest lies? Drawing conclusions from the Afghanistan war Al-Jazeera was one of the most correct media outlet while US based spewed propaganda news. In my opinion you should read them all and do a diff, then you get a pretty nice knowledge. If you just listen to CNN you arent getting the whole picture.
Ehh, thats like, built into every firewall worth the byte they are written on. A firewall that only checks source and destination can be replaced by a couple of lines in the company router.
ISA has had its share of problems.
Heh!
You have obviuosly never ever used a pneumatic hammer with 100 nail magazine!
I used one when i built my house and it saved me both thumbs and half the time.
Maybe windows is the (sigh, spelling sucks) equivalent (did i get that right?) of an old hammer and the rest of us is waiting and working towards the pneumatic hammer?
(then again i have rarely seen a hammer fail as often as windows. Come to think of it, Microsoft is to windows what a hammer is to glass!
You Americans have an ignorance level that is amazing.
;D
"Good luck not using any American products. That limits your Linux needs to nothing but SuSe."
Heh, well first, contrary to your belief there are a bunch of dists not originating from the US. Second since linux is 100% free or at the very least very cheap i dont really give away loads of money if i dont want too.
Hey, newsflash, linux isnt an all american product
Bush couldnt give more of a fuck about his people. He is protecting the big corporations.
I did not state that they werent evil. They are infact very smart since they got USA to do the exact thing they wanted when they wiped thosw towers out. It wasnt some crazed one minute attack but something planned for years, both the performance and the outcome of the 11 september attack was infact planned by al-queda. (note, al-queda and the talibans is NOT the same thing)
"e are defending something, we are defending the Iraqi people's freedom and their right to live without the threat of being tortured o" "disappearing" due to their political beliefs"
That must be the biggest line of bullshit i have ever read. How many al-quada people right now sitting in a camp in US because of political beliefs? No trial no accussasions no chance of defending themselves.
Morals has nothing to do with this war. Why do you think the US goes after a joke of an army like the iraq when North korea has killed far more people and impose far worse tactics against opposition than iraq could ever dream of? North Korea even has nuclear weapons now. But then again, they dont have any oil have they?
Get your head out of the sand and try getting a grip on what is happening out there. This is our childrens future and not ours we are talking about. Those kids is going to inherit what we sow today. The only thing this war is going to accompplish is making it a hell of a alot easier to recruit terrorists in the future. This time they will have it pretty easy to recruit even white people wich in my perception would be far more dangerous. IF that should come true you cant easily sort em out by name or skin coulour.
The world will be a much more dangerous place and i dont want to leave that as a legacy to my kids, do you?
Maybe because the warmongers doesnt have a single shred of evidence or facts to back the war up with now that the UN has rejected it as wrong?
Whip out some facts (not "news facts") and you will be modded correctly.
War is never and has never ever been the only solution unless you are attacked and have to defend yourself. Violence breeds more violence. The goal with the 11 September attack was stated by the al-queda to bring out USA in the open. They arent stupid fucks those fundamentalist muslims if you judge them by their skills in politics. Their total lack of respect for human lives is totally unacceptable but still they are pretty smart. USA swallowed the bate hook, sink and line without any thought whatsoever.
Before most of us thought of the US as a great country defending democracy in most cases and making some stupid mistakes like Vietnam way back. The perception of USA had improved over last 15 last years. Now they have blown all that goodwill to hell.
I will never ever buy an american product again. I wont support war, neither directly or indirectly.
There wasnt any 12 years of broken resolutions. The UN inspectors from the USA was spying heavily on iraq (as they did in EU parliament but thats another story) and thus iraq kicked them out demanding that no US would be allowed to inspect but all other naitons was welcome. The UN then bowed to USA and withdraw all inspectors saying that they wore kicked out.
12 years of broken resolutions you say? Well i sure hope the biggest breaker of UN resolutions get the bomb then, do you know wich it is? Guess, its a close US ally in the same region.
I know im about to blow my carma and i dont care. This is the most stupid thing the States has done since slavery. Sure Saddam is a fucking dictator and sure he should go. But is the USA mature enough to take on the responsibility? I dont think so and it is widely believed that this war has nothing to do with dictoatorships an everything to do with omney and power over the oil.o rld/di ctators.html http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/fdtcards/Cards_In dex.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/US_ThirdW
Why in fucks name should they install an american as a leader on arab soil when endless amount of opposition is prepared and come from good educations out being refugees in european countries? I think that USA wants to install an America friendly puppet gov in iraq.
Whats next, China, Israel, Cuba, North Korea, Mocambique, Germany or France?
This war has no legatimicy whatsoever and is an attack without reason. Am mad as hell and if I am mad as hell think how people thinks in arab countries? This if anything is going to bring out endless streams of terrorists raving mad and pissed of at USA. Even if they are liberated they arent happy at all with how and why that happen in iraq either.
USA wanted war on terrorism and they have just begun recruting terrorists for the opposite side, stupid fucks!
Then we have the issue of civil war in iraq/turkue. Half of kurdistan is in iraq and half of it in turkue. Both the turks and Saddam have been threating the kurds as garbage and there will be an uprising if the turks invade northen iraq, from the kurds. This war creates terrorism and instability wich is precisely what the USa set out to reduce.
Is USA that stupid? I really dont think so. Something else is behind this, money and power. The terrorists obviously succeded in what they set out for in September 11, make USA behaive like assholes. Now they have a fresh supply of eager people willing to die for their rights.
PS I dont hate Americans but something i hate is warmongers. DS
Shared Source has nothing to do with any new policy or some sudden change in behavior. Its just an attempt in keeping the remaining developers hooked onto MS and stop the massive stampeede onto linux and others.
MS have clearly shown that they will grab for any field in PC they think is profitable. Using their OS as a battering ram into the market they have suceeded with this many times. I am pretty sure that they have misintrepret why developers go to open source. If it wasnt open source it would have been something else. The main point is that they want away from MS. Where they go from that isnt important. Making Shared Source into a license that only benefit MS wont lure many developers back thats for sure. Especielly since MS is knowned for their mumbo jumbo licenses with smallprint in the size of kvarks.
I love that comic!
Why in gods name did they cancel it?
Not to diss the authors hard work but who would want the Windows look and feel? Its old, badly engineered and is a disaster from a humanistic view. Intuitive? Not bloody likely!
I can see that it could do some benefit the first period for a linux n00b but it already exists enviroments very alike Windows in linux.
Well, if people can put time into copying a terrible GUI maybe some other people will start making something better than Xerox did. The whole desktop analogy feels somehow out of date today.
American companies have to compete against highly skilled companies in other countries. Up until you have had money enough to buy inventions, companies and innovations from abroad. Ofcourse that cant be forever. When these countries start to manufacture things instead of just selling all bright ideas abroad they can compete very hard against USA. Since American labour is more expensive the competing products is all the same but one bears a higher pricetag. Since USA has lost its headstart in knowledge it has to start competing on a more or less even playfield. To do that USA needs to be cheaper at manufacturing, take the auto industry as a good example of that. The asians ran circles around GM.
Either some very silly laws stalling the invention climate needs to be removed or big lossess of jobs will be a fact.
It may come as a surprise to most of you americans but the school system you have isnt the best in the world anymore. The invention climate is also a minefield where it sometimes isnt worth the hassle to capitalise a perfectly sellable product due to stupid patents and other IP laws.
How can something that costs almost nothing fund anything? A pirate cant really get prime payment for pirated gods so i dont see how this would be a big cashcow. It seems that everything is a terrorist. The big rubberstamp is out giving license to do anything to the poor sod it is used on.
;D
Not one single idiot in upper management in the USA seems to wonder WHY in gods name someone becomes a terrorist? Can it be that that 12 year old who saw his house be torned down without trial, rason or sanity becomes a terrorist in Palestine? The countless people who will have relatives killed in iraq, will they love USA more after they have bombed them to pieces and installed a capitalistic gov ran by USA sucking natural resources and giving nothing back like in latin america?
Pirating where people copy instead of buying is more of a problem. But hey, if anyone sucessfully target that kind of pirating we will se an enormous uptake in open source software. How many Windows users can say they dont have one app installed that is either pirated or misused shareware?
Make them pay and theyll run like hell
Methinks SCO is in for a slaughter. Perens dissection of the complaint is impressive to say the least. If half of it is proved in court SCO has no case whatsoever.
His skills and knowledge is very valuable to us and i think many people underestimate just how important people like Bruce Perens is to the open source community.
Thanks Bruce!
What i want is a slick empty GUI when i start setting my workstation up. Gnome is what suits me the best right now. I fleed bloat and tight integration in the windows world and im not going to just pickup different branded bloat from KDE. Someone else likes many buttons and for him KDE is better. Dont get me wrong, i love KDE to but it isnt what i want.
All in all i think the competition between KDE and GNOME is very healthy. What wee need to refrain from is mudslinging and bashing.
This is the reason that i prefer Scribus, Gimp and others over Open Office/MS Office etc for my work. The reason is that applications made to do everything including taking the dog for a walk is always halfgood at what they do. Single applications made for one specifik purpose doesnt have those problems. Having separated applications is also something that spurs interoperability and standards adherence. I really want to be able to swap out any of the applications i use without having to change the fileformat and export/import everything.
I think the best approach would be better adherance to standars in the open source community. We should develop and adopt standards for every format of documents avaliable and tout them harder than ever. The MS format lockin must be broken from within MS own user base and that can be possible if every other company and entityoutside MS supports an open standard.
You forgot Mono.
Thats something that will explode.
Well maybe now Miguel will realize he is just a brick in Microsofts game? I like the mono projekt on its technical merits but its just wasted efforts considering what MS is going to do when they feel Mono is more a threat than a PR gain.
Well my belief is that MS lets Miquel have his fun until enough userbase is established on windows and then just screw him over so bad he wont sit for a year. Mono is not something i support because it is controlled by MS wich spells bad considering how well previous teaming with them have been for others. They have a bad habit of screwing every partner over and i cant imagine why they would stop at Mono, do you?
Until MS goes out and develops their own linux client i think they are just happy that someone is working for them for free getting them some good PR to the cross platform pitch (wich i think is bs la grande). When thats over, boot!
What use is it when it doesnt run on anything but windows? Many scientists run linux and other stuff nowadays so its pretty insane doing a client that doesnt run on anything but windows.
.net is an effort at keeping that barrier onto the future. I say good luck to Miguel when MS dicides it has enough desciples to boot on .net.
I detest using anything that isnt cross platform friendly. When the next OS comes i dont want to stand there with my corporate pants down.
Why is it so hard making applications truly cross plattform? Technology?
You already know the answer, the removal of the applications barrier is the biggest threat to Microsoft today.