Uh, yeah - O.K. - I'm using Mozilla 1.7beta on Linux - and it appears that to use the stuff you are linking - I have to go install some jnlp and make my browser think it knows what to do with it. Applets are much easier
And how is an applet supposed to piss me off, when your method is more difficult for me?
In reality, the only way to force a ".NET" engine (C# VM as you call it) onto every computer is if they start using.NET to distribute the automatic-updates web site that 85% of all Win computers rely on for security patches.
Even then, they wouldn't be able to force web sites to use it - now without financial incentive. Further, most web designers actually care about cross-platform capability (even if their customers don't).
To your second point...
Both Java and Microsoft have separate "single sign on" web solutions that are fully incompatible. And yes, this could mean that linux boxes could potentially run software that directly integrates with a.NET login group. That's not entirely a bad thing.
Microsoft has continuously tried to defeat Linux by forcing features on users that are incompatible with Linux, while Linux produces a workaround or a compatability layer. Well, this would be one less thing to try and workaround.
I don't think this is an advantage for Microsoft as now.NET developers can choose to use hybrid Java/.NET solutions that both do authentication depending on which language is the better choice for that task.
Yes - a late conteder for April Fools (actually opened the second of April) two years ago. I noted that, but tit-for-tat, that's why I said, "wouldn't it be funny if" - then looked it up and found it.
And of course, my subject line has to sound sensational, afterall - it wouldn't be April Fool's day otherwise...
Third Post!! - Uh really, this is my third postto slashdot using this account name.
So, I'm thinking, wouldn't it be fun to open such a project on Source Forge? Then I thought - I'll bet somebody did. (yeah, go to the link, it's there).
Left to it's initial first several sentances, I was thinking that instead of a Pedahertz processor (available sometime in 2020) I'd have to make a Beowulf cluster of *gasp* pre-O.P. computers.
Then I start reading further down, and find - oh my - it will destroy your computer. And I thought - ah, April First - just like Fresh-Meat's ROT-13 front-page.
Then I thought to myself, my god - this is actually the same as the "trusted computing initiative". Trusted computing wouldn't break your system, per se, but would prevent it from playing with other trusted computers Then I thought to myself, it's supposed to be funny, laugh. Then I modded myself down for rambling on about all of my thought process to the first post I could find that noticed that the joke actually touches a nerve.
Thank god I'm getting a new shipment of irradiated aliuminum foil, straight from Reynolds.
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"Supports Solaris 9 Operating System x86 Platform Edition and standard Linux distributions from Sun".
Mention that again when they pull the word Linux off of all their web pages, and I'll believe you. (winks).
And how is an applet supposed to piss me off, when your method is more difficult for me?
Even then, they wouldn't be able to force web sites to use it - now without financial incentive. Further, most web designers actually care about cross-platform capability (even if their customers don't).
Just food for thought.
Microsoft has continuously tried to defeat Linux by forcing features on users that are incompatible with Linux, while Linux produces a workaround or a compatability layer. Well, this would be one less thing to try and workaround.
I don't think this is an advantage for Microsoft as now .NET developers can choose to use hybrid Java/.NET solutions that both do authentication depending on which language is the better choice for that task.
And of course, my subject line has to sound sensational, afterall - it wouldn't be April Fool's day otherwise...
Third Post!! - Uh really, this is my third post to slashdot using this account name.
So, I'm thinking, wouldn't it be fun to open such a project on Source Forge? Then I thought - I'll bet somebody did. (yeah, go to the link, it's there).
Then I start reading further down, and find - oh my - it will destroy your computer. And I thought - ah, April First - just like Fresh-Meat's ROT-13 front-page.
Then I thought to myself, my god - this is actually the same as the "trusted computing initiative". Trusted computing wouldn't break your system, per se, but would prevent it from playing with other trusted computers Then I thought to myself, it's supposed to be funny, laugh. Then I modded myself down for rambling on about all of my thought process to the first post I could find that noticed that the joke actually touches a nerve.
Thank god I'm getting a new shipment of irradiated aliuminum foil, straight from Reynolds.