Both programmes followed up on the German research, USSR took the workers, US the lead engineers and in the end the USSR was the first in space. Sputnik crisis. That was shocking for the US. The US space program was an attempt to catch up with the Soviets. So if the US had not succeeded the USSR would.
The problem with Microsoft is that they gave a 50% community promise, expect the next 50% to come soon. In three years Intellectual Ventures, their patent troll could sent you a letter...
Didn't Miguel just acknowledge that Winforms, ADO.NET and ASP.NET are not part of the Microsoft patent indemnification program, and he would split Mono into two packages?
The best way to resolve it of course would be to knock at Microsoft's door and ask them to indemnify more.
And the problem with these patent pledge is that they are still premature and you don't know their applicability in court.
With SUN unexpected release of GPLed code for Java I don't see why Microsoft should be less progressive with patents. Of course it is always a transformation process and with Microsofts move to the cloud many old nasty paradigms are overcome and more developer friendly internal policies adopted.
I understood Gazelle as a desperate response to the announcement of Google Chromium OS and then you put a female(that is important) researcher in the news and use you PR stalin organ just to shout the Google Chromium OS announcement down. Everyone know that Gazelle is vapourware.
Of couse the experimental study "Gazelle" is presented as the competitor. Not "Windows 7", ha ha.
Essentially Chrome OS shoots the cash cow, the bullets are cheap and it is fun. The Google OS is largely driven by the hardware manufacturers and their interest to lower OS target costs and get more better and more interface information. As it is branded Google Chromium OS you just expect it to support the browser but of course you can run every Linux desktop application you want and oops, the other cashs cows of Microsoft as Microsoft Office are not even available for the Linux platform.
The question for me is why no one attempted to create a Fox Operating System.;-) To my knowledge the Google OS will not ship with KDE or Gnome but rather a lightweight ressource saving environment.
For Microsoft it all feels a bit Berlin 1945, with Gazelle as the latest Wunderwaffe. Google is so scared about the competitor...
It is a fact, Google can seriously wreck Microsoft with a minor investment and that will make Microsoft do all the wonderful stuff that only competition can achieve. Of course the manufacturers like that.
Look, Sun release Java under the GPL when RedHat had almost a fully implemented Classpath implemented under a free license and compilers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Classpath
SUN is paranoid about Java balkanisation..NET just needs better patent conditions.
There was J++ and Microsoft wanted to add its own technology stack to Java, so instead of getting conflicts with Sun, they did the right thing with c#.
C# is a Java competitor and.Net the probably best Microsoft has ever done to clean up the platform. All we need not is patent safety and the recent move is a first step into that direction and we have to ask Microsoft to let more follow.
It would be great to see Microsoft win and.Net win, because it is the best technology for a cross-platform future. With Microsoft moving towards the cloud it would be great to make Microsoft embrace cross-platform to resolve the remaining Java argument and indemnify developers from patent hassles, also ASP.NET and ADO.NET and Winforms. That would be a consequent move towards a cloud based architecture.
I think Microsoft should resolve the rest as well, so that we can safely embrace Mono and.Net. C# and dotnet are great but it is not really useful with patents.
"C# is not Java and it's not intended to be like Java. C# is more like C and C++: a programming language and a standard library, with different platform specific libraries on different platforms."
Yes, it is.
"ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Winforms etc. are provided by Mono only for Microsoft compatibility, but most people don't use them or even install them."
These are the relevant tools for.Net compatibility and their implementation is premature and you have the patent problem.
If Microsoft resolves the patent problem I am sure many will go and adopt Mono.
But there is the potential for Microsoft to become cross-platform with.Net. All we need is better patent offerings from Microsoft and a few coins on the missing Mono stuff and then we can say, Java, goodbye. Mono represents the potential to make.Net cross-platform.
It is a great sign anyway of Microsoft, and they really should be asked to add asp.net, ado.net and winforms as well. Then we might find out that the.Net platform is just great.
I can't see how Vista GUI is an improvement over XP. The file manager is almost unusable, would love to get Dolphin on my Win box, and the shutdown default does not power down as intended. Shutdown with Vista is not Shutdown. Often it fails. A real annoyance. Skin XP with a dark theme and you get the only real improvement of Vista.
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Indeed!
Just use the EGPL
You forgot to mention how he obtained it from the Thule Society.
Yes, but that is their own decision.
MS has to comply with the law.
Opera filed a complaint.
EU Commission, guess you are right with the complaint.
MS castrates itself and blames the EU.
EU says: STFU, we set the remedies, not you.
How come, after all it is KDE technology?
It is not about money but law.
The EU can only impose fines, not criminal penalties.
Allegations of "money" are slander which misinterpret the way the authority works.
It is not the benefit of the authority but the pain.
So why doesn'T Microsoft offer the upgrade to Windows Vista 7 for free after what costs they inflicted on their customers with VISTA?
Both programmes followed up on the German research, USSR took the workers, US the lead engineers and in the end the USSR was the first in space. Sputnik crisis. That was shocking for the US. The US space program was an attempt to catch up with the Soviets. So if the US had not succeeded the USSR would.
The problem with Microsoft is that they gave a 50% community promise, expect the next 50% to come soon. In three years Intellectual Ventures, their patent troll could sent you a letter...
Didn't Miguel just acknowledge that Winforms, ADO.NET and ASP.NET are not part of the Microsoft patent indemnification program, and he would split Mono into two packages?
The best way to resolve it of course would be to knock at Microsoft's door and ask them to indemnify more.
And the problem with these patent pledge is that they are still premature and you don't know their applicability in court.
With SUN unexpected release of GPLed code for Java I don't see why Microsoft should be less progressive with patents. Of course it is always a transformation process and with Microsofts move to the cloud many old nasty paradigms are overcome and more developer friendly internal policies adopted.
I understood Gazelle as a desperate response to the announcement of Google Chromium OS and then you put a female(that is important) researcher in the news and use you PR stalin organ just to shout the Google Chromium OS announcement down. Everyone know that Gazelle is vapourware.
And of course we have other funny spin as well:
* Will Google Chrome OS bankrupt Canonical?
* Guardian: Google Chrome OS: is it copying Microsoft's Gazelle or is it more like Splashtop?
* Microsoft's Web Browser-Based OS: Gazelle with a link to the research paper.
Of couse the experimental study "Gazelle" is presented as the competitor. Not "Windows 7", ha ha.
Essentially Chrome OS shoots the cash cow, the bullets are cheap and it is fun. The Google OS is largely driven by the hardware manufacturers and their interest to lower OS target costs and get more better and more interface information. As it is branded Google Chromium OS you just expect it to support the browser but of course you can run every Linux desktop application you want and oops, the other cashs cows of Microsoft as Microsoft Office are not even available for the Linux platform.
The question for me is why no one attempted to create a Fox Operating System. ;-) To my knowledge the Google OS will not ship with KDE or Gnome but rather a lightweight ressource saving environment.
For Microsoft it all feels a bit Berlin 1945, with Gazelle as the latest Wunderwaffe. Google is so scared about the competitor...
It is a fact, Google can seriously wreck Microsoft with a minor investment and that will make Microsoft do all the wonderful stuff that only competition can achieve. Of course the manufacturers like that.
Look, Sun release Java under the GPL when RedHat had almost a fully implemented Classpath implemented under a free license and compilers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Classpath
SUN is paranoid about Java balkanisation. .NET just needs better patent conditions.
There was J++ and Microsoft wanted to add its own technology stack to Java, so instead of getting conflicts with Sun, they did the right thing with c#.
C# is a Java competitor and .Net the probably best Microsoft has ever done to clean up the platform. All we need not is patent safety and the recent move is a first step into that direction and we have to ask Microsoft to let more follow.
It would be great to see Microsoft win and .Net win, because it is the best technology for a cross-platform future. With Microsoft moving towards the cloud it would be great to make Microsoft embrace cross-platform to resolve the remaining Java argument and indemnify developers from patent hassles, also ASP.NET and ADO.NET and Winforms. That would be a consequent move towards a cloud based architecture.
I think Microsoft should resolve the rest as well, so that we can safely embrace Mono and .Net. C# and dotnet are great but it is not really useful with patents.
"C# is not Java and it's not intended to be like Java. C# is more like C and C++: a programming language and a standard library, with different platform specific libraries on different platforms."
Yes, it is.
"ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Winforms etc. are provided by Mono only for Microsoft compatibility, but most people don't use them or even install them."
These are the relevant tools for .Net compatibility and their implementation is premature and you have the patent problem.
If Microsoft resolves the patent problem I am sure many will go and adopt Mono.
But there is the potential for Microsoft to become cross-platform with .Net. All we need is better patent offerings from Microsoft and a few coins on the missing Mono stuff and then we can say, Java, goodbye. Mono represents the potential to make .Net cross-platform.
It is a great sign anyway of Microsoft, and they really should be asked to add asp.net, ado.net and winforms as well. Then we might find out that the .Net platform is just great.
Okay, where do I find more anekdotical evidence?
Interesting, but today XFCE feels very much like gnome.
ACTA = EU Commission DG trade as negotiator authorized by the EU Council.
Of course they at the Council secreatriat will use Art 4 exemptions.
You just need to fix the Art 4 "international relations" examption so that it does not apply to regulatory trade agreements.
What does year of the desktop mean? I don't expect any landslide switch to Linux on the Desktop. It is just enough that Linux is taken *very serious*.
1. cool
2. Exactly
3. true.
4. not quite
5. correct
6. Is beeing ported.
7. Gnome does.
8. right
9. no.
The browser ist not part of the desktop environment.
I like KDE and I am sure many persons will use KDE4 when it is ready for users.
I can't see how Vista GUI is an improvement over XP. The file manager is almost unusable, would love to get Dolphin on my Win box, and the shutdown default does not power down as intended. Shutdown with Vista is not Shutdown. Often it fails. A real annoyance. Skin XP with a dark theme and you get the only real improvement of Vista.