Assembly Coders - these are extinct group of primitive form of life before the advent of culture and civilisation, althought without access to any formal human-recognizable language structure they were amazingly versatile in their skills to construct reality by pushing and popping strings of little pebbles from holes dug in the ground. Ancient arcade machines sometimes found in desolate pubs testify to their once glorious existance.
C - C Programmers are more like highly evolved alien beings from outer space who spoke purely in binary and pointers. They often take the disguise as unsightly middle aged man with beard and glasses amongst earthlings. They do not care for the artifacts of language or culture, they only care for the semantics. Their job is to construct and engineer the roads, the transportation, the network lines, the infrasture that our civilazation have come to depend very much on. They are very hard to communicate with as intepreting their language requires unusually greater IQ than most of our earthlings can aspire to.
C++ - C++ Programmers are born again C programmers who realised their folly of seeing the world in pure binary and pointers. They want to see reality more concretely thus they talk in objects and classes. More often than not, C++ Programmers are still attached to their old ways and their attempts to communicate with others often result in abstrated hodgepodge just as complicated as the C language. Most C++ Programmers feel they may have had a deprived childhood.
Java - Java Programmers are like C++ programmers except they were brought up in aristrocat families. Their manners in their language are refined and elegant althought at times may appear slightly pretentious and artificial. They are very socially closed and mix with their own kind only, basically they dont like outsiders playing in their upper-middle class private school sandbox. Being economically previliged means they have ample access to inheritance like network libraries, etc. Although their reputation is good amongst corporate circles, they are rumoured to be impotent when it comes to GUI.
Visual Basic - Visual Basic programmers are perceived to be like your every day a dime a dozen computer science graduates. They are naive, confident and sometimes a little brash in their perceived ability to deal with the real world. Their language developed from high school jargons and street slang though highly vulgar in the eyes of other programmers, were often effective (or adequate) in solving a lot of every day ordinary kitchen and sink problems. Often the case, a job completed by a Visual Basic programmer, thought cheap and fast leaves little to be desired, tales of half patched pipes leaking from under kitchen sink are well known in the industry.
C# - C# Programmers are Java programmers wannabes wanting to achieve the same social status and previledge that Java programmers have, C# programmers lacks the authentic social grace and ethics that could help them rise above the Visual Basic suburbia coarse mentality that tends to predominate them. C# Programmers also tends to like screen widgets that are glitzy. They are the type of people that the marketing department love to target in their product focus group.
COBOL - Cobol Programmers are not really people, they were actually mutated from hole-punch card readers. they have no human affectations and thus are very capable of churning out millions of incredibly mundane and humanly degrading pages and pages of printed accounts reconciliation codes. although they were disbanded by the human rights organisation, Cobol programmers were actively recruited just before the millineum to solve the Y2k bug which they were originally responsible for.
Fabled Programmers - the are many species of programmers that claim to exist but no one have ever met any of these illusive creatures in
In the long saga of the battle between the world and its detested adversary, the Microsoft corporation, everybody is dying to see how the movie end. Everybody also knows that in the movie the antagonist always dies at the end, but the question is how? To most who detest Microsoft vehemently they would like to see a quick and horrid death and those who detest even more so would only find a sadistic pleasure in seeing nothing less than having Microsoft being slowly skinned alive on a burning stake.
An IT Fairy Tale
Once upon the time, there was a computer software company named Microsoft, whose craftiness in marketing made it become one of the most popular software company on the planet. However, once that company attained its dominant position in the marketplace, greed and fear filled the unsettled soul of Microsoft. The company then aggressively pursued and eliminated almost all of its contenders, names that once were legends one by one fell to Microsoft's sword, WordPerfect, Borland, Novell, Netscape, Corel and more. Soon, people saw Microsoft for what it was, a cunning roguish company that had no conscience to stop itself doing whatever it needs to achieve its ambitions. All the other software companies realized that there will be no end to Microsoft's unquenchable thirst for power but none dared to challenge Microsoft until one day a young knight developed an operating system called Linux. Linux came with a license called Open Source, which represented to all the other companies a platform from which they can rally together in a silent treaty to overthrow the software tyrant. One day, Microsoft woke up and saw a huge army amassed upon the hills, companies that once were shot, wounded, cheated and humiliated now all carry the same banner, the flag of Linux. Amongst the valiant warriors, were IBM, Novell, Sun, Oracle, Sony, Fujitsu, Red Hat and CA and amongst the catapults and shields they used were forged from the power of Open Source, Apache, OpenOffice, Mozilla, PosgreSQL, MySql, Python, PHP, Samba and much more. What Microsoft saw shook its heart, however its power to control the market is still immense and with 56 billion dollars in the vault, its going to put up a very good fight. This is the year 2004 and the battle has just begun.
The Crystal Ball
So my young seer, you wish to see how this battle unfold? First, you have to understand how unlike previous battles where the companies were easily and ruthlessly cut down by Microsoft, this time the catapults and shields that the Allies formed from Open Source were impenetrable, in fact, the more Microsoft attacked the slowly advancing catapults and
shields, the stronger the catapults and shields became. How can that be? The magic of Open Source. All artifacts created from Open Source do not obey the laws of the jungle, first of all artifacts are immortalized by having the source code freely distributed across the earth, as Microsoft attacks one point more heads would sprout from different places. Another power of Open Source is leverage, in the old times when a developer was to write a software, he practically has to write most of the libraries himself/herself or purchase or license expensive code sets from other companies like Microsoft. Nowadays, these libraries are all available freely from Open Source, graphics libraries, network libraries, XML libraries, parsers, compilers, were all there for all to share. This is the leverage that hasn't been available to developers before, now all the Davids have slingshots.
Rebellion of the Serfs
Back to that same once ancient period, almost all developers lived under the direction and command of Microsoft. Their blind obedience contributed immensely to the growth of Microsoft. They created applications of all sorts of shapes and sizes which made the Microsoft platform very popular. All these t
In the long saga of the battle between the world and its detested adversary, the Microsoft corporation, everybody is dying to see how the movie end. Everybody also knows that in the movie the antagonist always dies at the end, but the question is how? To most who detest Microsoft vehemently they would like to see a quick and horrid death and those who detest even more so would only find a sadistic pleasure in seeing nothing less than having Microsoft being slowly skinned alive on a burning stake.
An IT Fairy Tale
Once upon the time, there was a computer software company named Microsoft, whose craftiness in marketing made it become one of the most popular software company on the planet. However, once that company attained its dominant position in the marketplace, greed and fear filled the unsettled soul of Microsoft. The company then aggressively pursued and eliminated almost all of its contenders, names that once were legends one by one fell to Microsoft's sword, WordPerfect, Borland, Novell, Netscape, Corel and more. Soon, people saw Microsoft for what it was, a cunning roguish company that had no conscience to stop itself doing whatever it needs to achieve its ambitions. All the other software companies realized that there will be no end to Microsoft's unquenchable thirst for power but none dared to challenge Microsoft until one day a young knight developed an operating system called Linux. Linux came with a license called Open Source, which represented to all the other companies a platform from which they can rally together in a silent treaty to overthrow the software tyrant. One day, Microsoft woke up and saw a huge army amassed upon the hills, companies that once were shot, wounded, cheated and humiliated now all carry the same banner, the flag of Linux. Amongst the valiant warriors, were IBM, Novell, Sun, Oracle, Sony, Fujitsu, Red Hat and CA and amongst the catapults and shields they used were forged from the power of Open Source, Apache, OpenOffice, Mozilla, PosgreSQL, MySql, Python, PHP, Samba and much more. What Microsoft saw shook its heart, however its power to control the market is still immense and with 56 billion dollars in the vault, its going to put up a very good fight. This is the year 2004 and the battle has just begun.
The Crystal Ball
So my young seer, you wish to see how this battle unfold? First, you have to understand how unlike previous battles where the companies were easily and ruthlessly cut down by Microsoft, this time the catapults and shields that the Allies formed from Open Source were impenetrable, in fact, the more Microsoft attacked the slowly advancing catapults and shields, the stronger the catapults and shields became. How can that be? The magic of Open Source. All artifacts created from Open Source do not obey the laws of the jungle, first of all artifacts are immortalized by having the source code freely distributed across the earth, as Microsoft attacks one point more heads would sprout from different places. Another power of Open Source is leverage, in the old times when a developer was to write a software, he practically has to write most of the libraries himself/herself or purchase or license expensive code sets from other companies like Microsoft. Nowadays, these libraries are all available freely from Open Source, graphics libraries, network libraries, XML libraries, parsers, compilers, were all there for all to share. This is the leverage that hasn't been available to developers before, now all the Davids have slingshots.
Rebellion of the Serfs
Back to that same once ancient period, almost all developers lived under the direction and command of Microsoft. Their blind obedience contributed immensely to the growth of Microsoft. They created applications of all sorts of shapes and sizes which made the Microsoft platform very popular. All these times
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Assembly Coders - these are extinct group of primitive form of life
before the advent of culture and civilisation, althought without access
to any formal human-recognizable language structure they were amazingly
versatile in their skills to construct reality by pushing and popping strings of
little pebbles from holes dug in the ground. Ancient arcade machines
sometimes found in desolate pubs testify to their once glorious existance.
C - C Programmers are more like highly evolved alien beings from outer space
who spoke purely in binary and pointers. They often take the disguise as
unsightly middle aged man with beard and glasses amongst earthlings.
They do not care for the artifacts of language or culture, they only care
for the semantics. Their job is to construct and engineer the roads,
the transportation, the network lines, the infrasture that our civilazation
have come to depend very much on. They are very hard to communicate with as
intepreting their language requires unusually greater IQ than most of
our earthlings can aspire to.
C++ - C++ Programmers are born again C programmers who realised their
folly of seeing the world in pure binary and pointers. They want to see
reality more concretely thus they talk in objects and classes.
More often than not, C++ Programmers are still attached to their
old ways and their attempts to communicate with others often result
in abstrated hodgepodge just as complicated as the C
language. Most C++ Programmers feel they may have had a
deprived childhood.
Java - Java Programmers are like C++ programmers except they were
brought up in aristrocat families. Their manners in their language
are refined and elegant althought at times may appear slightly
pretentious and artificial. They are very socially closed and
mix with their own kind only, basically they dont like outsiders
playing in their upper-middle class private school sandbox.
Being economically previliged means they have ample access to inheritance
like network libraries, etc. Although their reputation is good amongst
corporate circles, they are rumoured to be impotent when it comes to GUI.
Visual Basic - Visual Basic programmers are perceived to be like your
every day a dime a dozen computer science graduates. They
are naive, confident and sometimes a little brash in their perceived
ability to deal with the real world. Their language developed from high school
jargons and street slang though highly vulgar in the eyes of other programmers,
were often effective (or adequate) in solving a lot of every day
ordinary kitchen and sink problems. Often the case, a job completed
by a Visual Basic programmer, thought cheap and fast leaves little to be desired,
tales of half patched pipes leaking from under kitchen sink are
well known in the industry.
C# - C# Programmers are Java programmers wannabes wanting to achieve the same
social status and previledge that Java programmers have, C# programmers
lacks the authentic social grace and ethics that could help them rise above the
Visual Basic suburbia coarse mentality that tends to predominate them. C# Programmers
also tends to like screen widgets that are glitzy. They are the type of people
that the marketing department love to target in their product focus group.
COBOL - Cobol Programmers are not really people, they were actually mutated
from hole-punch card readers. they have no human affectations
and thus are very capable of churning out millions of incredibly mundane and
humanly degrading pages and pages of printed accounts reconciliation codes.
although they were disbanded by the human rights organisation, Cobol
programmers were actively recruited just before the millineum to solve the Y2k bug
which they were originally responsible for.
Fabled Programmers - the are many species of programmers that claim
to exist but no one have ever met any of these illusive creatures in
The Demise of Microsoft
In the long saga of the battle between the world and its detested adversary,
the Microsoft corporation, everybody is dying to see how the movie end.
Everybody also knows that in the movie the antagonist always dies at the end,
but the question is how? To most who detest Microsoft vehemently they would
like to see a quick and horrid death and those who detest even more so would
only find a sadistic pleasure in seeing nothing less than having Microsoft being
slowly skinned alive on a burning stake.
An IT Fairy Tale
Once upon the time, there was a computer software company named Microsoft,
whose craftiness in marketing made it become one of the most popular software company
on the planet. However, once that company attained its dominant position
in the marketplace, greed and fear filled the unsettled soul of Microsoft.
The company then aggressively pursued and eliminated almost all of its contenders,
names that once were legends one by one fell to Microsoft's sword, WordPerfect,
Borland, Novell, Netscape, Corel and more. Soon, people saw Microsoft for what
it was, a cunning roguish company that had no conscience to stop itself doing whatever
it needs to achieve its ambitions. All the other software companies
realized that there will be no end to Microsoft's unquenchable thirst for power but
none dared to challenge Microsoft until one day a young knight developed an operating
system called Linux. Linux came with a license called Open Source, which represented
to all the other companies a platform from which they can rally together in a
silent treaty to overthrow the software tyrant. One day, Microsoft woke up
and saw a huge army amassed upon the hills, companies that once were shot, wounded,
cheated and humiliated now all carry the same banner, the flag of Linux. Amongst
the valiant warriors, were IBM, Novell, Sun, Oracle, Sony, Fujitsu, Red Hat and CA and
amongst the catapults and shields they used were forged from the power of Open Source,
Apache, OpenOffice, Mozilla, PosgreSQL, MySql, Python, PHP, Samba and much
more. What Microsoft saw shook its heart, however its power to control the market
is still immense and with 56 billion dollars in the vault, its going to put up a very
good fight. This is the year 2004 and the battle has just begun.
The Crystal Ball
So my young seer, you wish to see how this battle unfold? First, you have to understand
how unlike previous battles where the companies were easily and ruthlessly cut down
by Microsoft, this time the catapults and shields that the Allies formed from Open Source
were impenetrable, in fact, the more Microsoft attacked the slowly advancing catapults and
shields,
the stronger the catapults and shields became. How can that be? The magic of Open Source.
All artifacts created from Open Source do not obey the laws of the jungle, first of all
artifacts are immortalized by having the source code freely distributed across the
earth, as Microsoft attacks one point more heads would sprout from different places.
Another power of Open Source is leverage, in the old times when a developer was to
write a software, he practically has to write most of the libraries himself/herself or
purchase or license expensive code sets from other companies like Microsoft. Nowadays,
these libraries are all available freely from Open Source, graphics libraries,
network libraries, XML libraries, parsers, compilers, were all there for all to share.
This is the leverage that hasn't been available to developers before, now all the
Davids have slingshots.
Rebellion of the Serfs
Back to that same once ancient period, almost all developers lived under the direction and
command of Microsoft. Their blind obedience contributed immensely to
the growth of Microsoft. They created applications of all sorts of shapes
and sizes which made the Microsoft platform very popular. All these t
The Demise of Microsoft
In the long saga of the battle between the world and its detested adversary,
the Microsoft corporation, everybody is dying to see how the movie end.
Everybody also knows that in the movie the antagonist always dies at the end,
but the question is how? To most who detest Microsoft vehemently they would
like to see a quick and horrid death and those who detest even more so would
only find a sadistic pleasure in seeing nothing less than having Microsoft being
slowly skinned alive on a burning stake.
An IT Fairy Tale
Once upon the time, there was a computer software company named Microsoft,
whose craftiness in marketing made it become one of the most popular software company
on the planet. However, once that company attained its dominant position
in the marketplace, greed and fear filled the unsettled soul of Microsoft.
The company then aggressively pursued and eliminated almost all of its contenders,
names that once were legends one by one fell to Microsoft's sword, WordPerfect,
Borland, Novell, Netscape, Corel and more. Soon, people saw Microsoft for what
it was, a cunning roguish company that had no conscience to stop itself doing whatever
it needs to achieve its ambitions. All the other software companies
realized that there will be no end to Microsoft's unquenchable thirst for power but
none dared to challenge Microsoft until one day a young knight developed an operating
system called Linux. Linux came with a license called Open Source, which represented
to all the other companies a platform from which they can rally together in a
silent treaty to overthrow the software tyrant. One day, Microsoft woke up
and saw a huge army amassed upon the hills, companies that once were shot, wounded,
cheated and humiliated now all carry the same banner, the flag of Linux. Amongst
the valiant warriors, were IBM, Novell, Sun, Oracle, Sony, Fujitsu, Red Hat and CA and
amongst the catapults and shields they used were forged from the power of Open Source,
Apache, OpenOffice, Mozilla, PosgreSQL, MySql, Python, PHP, Samba and much
more. What Microsoft saw shook its heart, however its power to control the market
is still immense and with 56 billion dollars in the vault, its going to put up a very
good fight. This is the year 2004 and the battle has just begun.
The Crystal Ball
So my young seer, you wish to see how this battle unfold? First, you have to understand
how unlike previous battles where the companies were easily and ruthlessly cut down
by Microsoft, this time the catapults and shields that the Allies formed from Open Source
were impenetrable, in fact, the more Microsoft attacked the slowly advancing catapults and shields,
the stronger the catapults and shields became. How can that be? The magic of Open Source.
All artifacts created from Open Source do not obey the laws of the jungle, first of all
artifacts are immortalized by having the source code freely distributed across the
earth, as Microsoft attacks one point more heads would sprout from different places.
Another power of Open Source is leverage, in the old times when a developer was to
write a software, he practically has to write most of the libraries himself/herself or
purchase or license expensive code sets from other companies like Microsoft. Nowadays,
these libraries are all available freely from Open Source, graphics libraries,
network libraries, XML libraries, parsers, compilers, were all there for all to share.
This is the leverage that hasn't been available to developers before, now all the
Davids have slingshots.
Rebellion of the Serfs
Back to that same once ancient period, almost all developers lived under the direction and
command of Microsoft. Their blind obedience contributed immensely to
the growth of Microsoft. They created applications of all sorts of shapes
and sizes which made the Microsoft platform very popular. All these times