That assumes that companies actually want ownership. Most don't. As a developer, I don't want ownership of the IDE. I don't want to have to learn how to recompile it, or learn the inner workings of it. I don't get paid to change the font it uses from the default, nor do I really want to try and help a fellow developer, only to realize his program won't compile because of some optimization he did to his compiler so that it ran.01% faster.
I don't demand that sears give me the complete schematics to the hammer I bought, along with detailed instructions how to cut down a tree to form the handle, and smelt the metal for the head. I just want to hit something with it, and it to work. That's something that I think many in the OSS fan clubs fail to realize that most people who really want to use something DON'T want to tinker with the internals of it.
It's much less of a novelty than you think. Quite a few ASP.NET controls are written in C#, and quite a few are written in VB.NET. Depending on which shop you land up in, your pages will be written in one or the other, and all the code libraries you have written are equally available to both. I've got quite a few websites that have classes written in C# and VB.NET both (some even inherit/extend from a class written in the other language).
You are talking about the body that gives MS licences the force of law in the EU. If MS did that how long do you think it would take the EU to size the rights to, and reverse engineer Vista? Seize the rights to what? You mean the software that is protected by copyright? Assuming the EU ignored this minor fact, you'd see Vista era stuff in 2020.
More importantly, how do you think that MS would respond to warrants for the arrest of all it's senior management being issued by INTERPOL? (The US is signatory). On what grounds? It is not illegal to pull your products from a region that isn't profitable.
First,.NET isn't a language. It's a platform. If you recall, Java was one of the original languages that was going to ship with.NET, but Sun threw a fit, filed a bunch of lawsuits, and Microsoft finally just took it out.
Because Java isn't good at everything (Actually, I find it's good at very little), the.NET platform supports all of the following languages: Ada, APL, Basic, Boo, C, C#, C++, Cobol, Eiffel, Forth, Fortran, Haskell, IL/MSIL, J#/Java, JavaScript, LISP, LOGO, Mixal, Modula-2, Perl, Pascal, PHP, Prolog, Python, Ruby, RPG, Smalltalk, and Tcl/Tk.
Each of them is capable of both creating and consuming code written by any of the others. So I can write in VB.NET, and use a class that was written in C#. I can package it up, and the application just works.
A better question that you should have asked is why would we care about Java being GPL-ed when it's slower, less scalable, only supports a single language, controlled by a single vendor, and YEARS behind. When the Java language becomes forgotten (like all computer languages do) for the next best language, all your code is useless. But all my libraries are just a call away, no matter what language takes the place of what I currently use.
All 6 of the complaints were about technical issues. The 1-month fast track approval is not the correct place to raise those types of issues. The only thing that can keep something from getting fast track approval is an objection that highlights why it conflicts with standard that has already been approved. None of the 6 complaints did this, so it was pushed through.
They can of course, raise the same complaints during the 5 month ballot process, which is the correct time to raise such concerns. Although, 6 out of 100+ is still a fairly small number.
Of course, the places where One Care got dinged was for malware detection. That's what windows defender is for.
In other news... Large SUV's scored highest in best car. Lamborghini scored lowest. See details below: Horse Power / Number of Seats / Game Console in back seat / Over all Score SUV 95 (25%) / 8 (100%) / 1 (100%) / 75% Lamborghini 500 (100%) / 2 (25%) / 0 (0%) / 41%
Except that there are laws that prohibit using social security numbers as a means of identification in quite a few industries (Although that is the law, how well it is actually followed is a completely different story). Social Security cards were meant as a means to access your social security benefits, or something related to it. It wasn't meant as a means to identify people, or a national identification mechanism or number.
How is it different? A) It's more secure. B) It's able to be used throughout all industries as a universal "key identifier" since the number itself is useless. C) It finally gets the privacy weirdos off the backs of the government for allowing companies to use SSNs as an identifier, especially since the ss cards are so easily forged, and isn't used for some other purpose other than for identification.
The US Government considers most companies that have up to 500 employees as being a small company. Depending on what your company does, the limit may be 500, 1000, or even 1500 employees before you get out of the small company size. So unlike what you think, 250 workstations is most likely a small company.
I think it'd be great for software as a service. I wouldn't mind paying to use Excel for 30 minutes a week (I don't do much spreadsheet work, but when I do, I prefer Excel over something like MS Works). Go ahead, charge me $2.00.
I guess I'm not one of them. I can burst up to 35Mb/sec, and can sustain downloads of just over 10Mb/sec (It's not quite 11Mb/sec). Even full duplex 10base-T wouldn't keep up with that.
As a resident of the United States (not that particular state), I only care about one thing (and I believe this is exactly what the average/common person's feelings are).
The state does exactly what it was set up to do. They do so completely (I can dream). They do so quickly (Still dreaming). They don't overstep their authority (I don't like the government really, nor do I want them controlling my every move/thought). They do so efficiently (I want to pay as little as possible for what they do).
Nothing in that list includes or precludes using the latest/best technology. Nothing in that list includes or precludes ODF. Nothing in that list includes or precludes using open source. Nothing in that list includes or precludes relegating software writing to a 3rd party. Nothing in that list includes or precludes partnering with a single vendor.
If using MS Word and Windows allows them to do thier jobs quicker and/or do them more efficiently then so be it. But if you want to switch away from it, you'd better be able to PROVE it's all going to be worth it, and frankly I haven't seen that, or believe it.
Although I agree with your post in general, and laugh whenever I see people abuse the word standard to mean standard within the realm of non-proprietary things (programs/formats/OSes), I have correct one minor thing you've said.
<quote>there are in fact two kinds of standard</quote>
Actually, there are many things that would classify as a standard. In itself, ODF does not meet any of the criteria. A "standard" by definition means "an object that is regarded as the usual or most common size or form of its kind", or what you call a de facto standard. You can limit the scope of where you look to be able to achieve your second definition by using modifiers like "Open" etc, but it is only a standard within that scope. Calling something a de jure (or in/by law) standard would classify as limiting scope, but without that scope limitation it's not standard, nor is it a second definition of standard. It's standard within the scope you've limited it to being within.
More like (weekday):
6 hours of sleep
8 hours of work
30 minutes travelling to and from work
5 minutes for meals (In drive through) -- eat while playing, skip lunch
25 minutes for showering/shaving
0 minutes for taking a dump (do so at work -- included in the 8 hours)
30 minutes home maint/shopping
8.5 hours left over
Weekend
6 hours of sleep
5 minutes for meals (nuke) -- eat while playing
25 minutes for showering/shaving/dump
1 hour home maint/shopping
16.5 hours left over
8.5*5+16.5*2=75.5
And in those 75.5 hours, I spend 2-3 hours with family each week, 5 hours with friends (on Friday nights),work 2-3 hours on a 2nd job (from home), 10-25 hours on a 3rd job (from home), and play ~50 hours.
There is one good reason. Security. Or haven't you seen any worms/virues that are able to shut down/disable most AV scanners and/or spyware scanners? That's the price you pay for allowing other software to be able to "plug-in". You enable bad software to "plug-in" too.
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Yes, which renders this whole article complete garbage.
Perhaps you need to graduate from the 8th grade. Homophones is not an insult, it describes two words that sound the same, but have different meanings.
Perhaps he knows what he's doing.
Java is basically .NET with only one language and much slower.
So why bother with Java?
That assumes that companies actually want ownership. Most don't. As a developer, I don't want ownership of the IDE. I don't want to have to learn how to recompile it, or learn the inner workings of it. I don't get paid to change the font it uses from the default, nor do I really want to try and help a fellow developer, only to realize his program won't compile because of some optimization he did to his compiler so that it ran .01% faster.
I don't demand that sears give me the complete schematics to the hammer I bought, along with detailed instructions how to cut down a tree to form the handle, and smelt the metal for the head. I just want to hit something with it, and it to work. That's something that I think many in the OSS fan clubs fail to realize that most people who really want to use something DON'T want to tinker with the internals of it.
It's much less of a novelty than you think. Quite a few ASP.NET controls are written in C#, and quite a few are written in VB.NET. Depending on which shop you land up in, your pages will be written in one or the other, and all the code libraries you have written are equally available to both. I've got quite a few websites that have classes written in C# and VB.NET both (some even inherit/extend from a class written in the other language).
No dear, I was just borrowing her phone.
First, .NET isn't a language. It's a platform. If you recall, Java was one of the original languages that was going to ship with .NET, but Sun threw a fit, filed a bunch of lawsuits, and Microsoft finally just took it out.
.NET platform supports all of the following languages:
Because Java isn't good at everything (Actually, I find it's good at very little), the
Ada, APL, Basic, Boo, C, C#, C++, Cobol, Eiffel, Forth, Fortran, Haskell, IL/MSIL, J#/Java, JavaScript, LISP, LOGO, Mixal, Modula-2, Perl, Pascal, PHP, Prolog, Python, Ruby, RPG, Smalltalk, and Tcl/Tk.
Each of them is capable of both creating and consuming code written by any of the others. So I can write in VB.NET, and use a class that was written in C#. I can package it up, and the application just works.
A better question that you should have asked is why would we care about Java being GPL-ed when it's slower, less scalable, only supports a single language, controlled by a single vendor, and YEARS behind. When the Java language becomes forgotten (like all computer languages do) for the next best language, all your code is useless. But all my libraries are just a call away, no matter what language takes the place of what I currently use.
All 6 of the complaints were about technical issues. The 1-month fast track approval is not the correct place to raise those types of issues. The only thing that can keep something from getting fast track approval is an objection that highlights why it conflicts with standard that has already been approved. None of the 6 complaints did this, so it was pushed through.
They can of course, raise the same complaints during the 5 month ballot process, which is the correct time to raise such concerns. Although, 6 out of 100+ is still a fairly small number.
Of course, the places where One Care got dinged was for malware detection. That's what windows defender is for.
In other news... Large SUV's scored highest in best car. Lamborghini scored lowest. See details below:
Horse Power / Number of Seats / Game Console in back seat / Over all Score
SUV 95 (25%) / 8 (100%) / 1 (100%) / 75%
Lamborghini 500 (100%) / 2 (25%) / 0 (0%) / 41%
It may be free, but it doesn't compete.
Except that there are laws that prohibit using social security numbers as a means of identification in quite a few industries (Although that is the law, how well it is actually followed is a completely different story). Social Security cards were meant as a means to access your social security benefits, or something related to it. It wasn't meant as a means to identify people, or a national identification mechanism or number.
How is it different?
A) It's more secure.
B) It's able to be used throughout all industries as a universal "key identifier" since the number itself is useless.
C) It finally gets the privacy weirdos off the backs of the government for allowing companies to use SSNs as an identifier, especially since the ss cards are so easily forged, and isn't used for some other purpose other than for identification.
The US Government considers most companies that have up to 500 employees as being a small company. Depending on what your company does, the limit may be 500, 1000, or even 1500 employees before you get out of the small company size. So unlike what you think, 250 workstations is most likely a small company.
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I think it'd be great for software as a service. I wouldn't mind paying to use Excel for 30 minutes a week (I don't do much spreadsheet work, but when I do, I prefer Excel over something like MS Works). Go ahead, charge me $2.00.
I guess I'm not one of them. I can burst up to 35Mb/sec, and can sustain downloads of just over 10Mb/sec (It's not quite 11Mb/sec). Even full duplex 10base-T wouldn't keep up with that.
No.
As a resident of the United States (not that particular state), I only care about one thing (and I believe this is exactly what the average/common person's feelings are).
The state does exactly what it was set up to do.
They do so completely (I can dream).
They do so quickly (Still dreaming).
They don't overstep their authority (I don't like the government really, nor do I want them controlling my every move/thought).
They do so efficiently (I want to pay as little as possible for what they do).
Nothing in that list includes or precludes using the latest/best technology.
Nothing in that list includes or precludes ODF.
Nothing in that list includes or precludes using open source.
Nothing in that list includes or precludes relegating software writing to a 3rd party.
Nothing in that list includes or precludes partnering with a single vendor.
If using MS Word and Windows allows them to do thier jobs quicker and/or do them more efficiently then so be it. But if you want to switch away from it, you'd better be able to PROVE it's all going to be worth it, and frankly I haven't seen that, or believe it.
Anything other than that IS a special interests.
Although I agree with your post in general, and laugh whenever I see people abuse the word standard to mean standard within the realm of non-proprietary things (programs/formats/OSes), I have correct one minor thing you've said.
<quote>there are in fact two kinds of standard</quote>
Actually, there are many things that would classify as a standard. In itself, ODF does not meet any of the criteria. A "standard" by definition means "an object that is regarded as the usual or most common size or form of its kind", or what you call a de facto standard. You can limit the scope of where you look to be able to achieve your second definition by using modifiers like "Open" etc, but it is only a standard within that scope. Calling something a de jure (or in/by law) standard would classify as limiting scope, but without that scope limitation it's not standard, nor is it a second definition of standard. It's standard within the scope you've limited it to being within.
Yes, in the same way they are paying for: A kernel, network protocol support, print engine, file explorer, etc etc etc
More like (weekday): 6 hours of sleep 8 hours of work 30 minutes travelling to and from work 5 minutes for meals (In drive through) -- eat while playing, skip lunch 25 minutes for showering/shaving 0 minutes for taking a dump (do so at work -- included in the 8 hours) 30 minutes home maint/shopping 8.5 hours left over Weekend 6 hours of sleep 5 minutes for meals (nuke) -- eat while playing 25 minutes for showering/shaving/dump 1 hour home maint/shopping 16.5 hours left over 8.5*5+16.5*2=75.5 And in those 75.5 hours, I spend 2-3 hours with family each week, 5 hours with friends (on Friday nights),work 2-3 hours on a 2nd job (from home), 10-25 hours on a 3rd job (from home), and play ~50 hours.
This begs the questions...
Are you cute?
and
I have some unused play cards, maybe we could make a deal?
There is one good reason. Security. Or haven't you seen any worms/virues that are able to shut down/disable most AV scanners and/or spyware scanners? That's the price you pay for allowing other software to be able to "plug-in". You enable bad software to "plug-in" too.
Perhaps you should *gasp* read the article?
Tomorrows headlines: MIT puts miniture nuclear reactor on a chip the size of a quarter. Now put THAT on your lap.
No problem man, you are now in charge of teaching all the secretaries how to use vi once you roll out unix terminals in your company.