Gee, sometimes one wants to know if an object could be considered as some other type. Hmmm, writing methods that don't need to know the concrete type until run-time. Perhaps Sun should consider looking at a mature OO programming language like CLOS aka Common Lisp Object System. Lisp solved many of these problems long ago. From my perspective, the real value of Java is proving the concept of byte size virtual machine code for run anywhere capability. The real cost savings for continued programming in Java is not the language features but the massive amount of ready-built infrastructure that comes in the JDK and JDK extensions. It is interesting to watch that as the popular OO programming/scripting languages evolve, the more they resemble Common Lisp at least in terms of features.
How does one know that SCO has not manufactured the evidence by taking Linux source code and wrapping it in their style of comments just so they can compare Linux source code to the artificial evidence? Considering the amount of time that elapsed between the date of SCO's allegations and the date of their announcement that they will let people see their evidence and the restrictive nature of the NDA it makes me wonder that they aren't trying to a "Wag The Dog" maneuver.
Again AOL shows its arrogance and ignorance. Watch AOL roll out a SOHO mail service now that they have ban e-mail from DSL-hosted servers. This is the usual act of desperate despots; committing an act of persecution in the name of "public good". After implementing what was probably one of coprorate America's biggest shell games, AOL-TW is now discovering that they have to provide a real service now that the "goodwill" that propped their share prices went poof. Unfortunately, not being good businessmen, they first have to act like Microsoft and create a state of deprivation to support their "new" service offering. Sheesh! Perhaps they should be threatened with a complete proscription of the AOL domain, i.e., all mail from the AOL domain is refused and all mail sent to the AOL domain is not forwarded to them.
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Gee, sometimes one wants to know if an object could be considered as some other type. Hmmm, writing methods that don't need to know the concrete type until run-time. Perhaps Sun should consider looking at a mature OO programming language like CLOS aka Common Lisp Object System. Lisp solved many of these problems long ago. From my perspective, the real value of Java is proving the concept of byte size virtual machine code for run anywhere capability. The real cost savings for continued programming in Java is not the language features but the massive amount of ready-built infrastructure that comes in the JDK and JDK extensions. It is interesting to watch that as the popular OO programming/scripting languages evolve, the more they resemble Common Lisp at least in terms of features.
How does one know that SCO has not manufactured the evidence by taking Linux source code and wrapping it in their style of comments just so they can compare Linux source code to the artificial evidence? Considering the amount of time that elapsed between the date of SCO's allegations and the date of their announcement that they will let people see their evidence and the restrictive nature of the NDA it makes me wonder that they aren't trying to a "Wag The Dog" maneuver.
Again AOL shows its arrogance and ignorance. Watch AOL roll out a SOHO mail service now that they have ban e-mail from DSL-hosted servers. This is the usual act of desperate despots; committing an act of persecution in the name of "public good". After implementing what was probably one of coprorate America's biggest shell games, AOL-TW is now discovering that they have to provide a real service now that the "goodwill" that propped their share prices went poof. Unfortunately, not being good businessmen, they first have to act like Microsoft and create a state of deprivation to support their "new" service offering. Sheesh! Perhaps they should be threatened with a complete proscription of the AOL domain, i.e., all mail from the AOL domain is refused and all mail sent to the AOL domain is not forwarded to them.