Rigel,
Could you point to a concise written summary?
The "Show" you sent the URL for appears to be some video requiring several MS products + MS formats + DRM, so I can't tell whether you are joking or not with your original suggestion. Text is helpful, video and audio is not, especially one in an unreasonable format like WMV/WMA
Gradually, I've started to give up most other closed source applications and nearly all closed protocols. I gave up MS products years ago, first for technical reasons, then stayed away because of the other benefits.
I'm skeptical about Dot Net because there are no mainstream resources (that I know of) detailing what it is and all of what I've read so far involves buzzwords and vague promises. The buzzwords and vague promises seem to indicate that it is a smaller, less efficient, proprietary, MS owned immitation of Java. However, I would like to be able to inform myself better at to what it is so that skepticism can be turned into an informed decision.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Mr Rigel Anrndt wrote:
If you are looking for a background of the initiatives on .NET you can watch the .NET show. All the archives are available from here. The first part of each episode is from a non-developer standpoint, called "TechNo Babble", and the second half of the show is from a programmer's standpoint, called "Enter The Programmer"
http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/
For managed code specifics, please watch the managed code episode: http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/episode035/default.asp
The idea behind suggesting managed code is it would help to clean up the plumbing so that the programmers have to do less, and Windows can do more. It could also solve incompatibilities if there is a reliable way to reproduce resources, and make pointer calls, etc etc.
Rigel
Lars D. Nood�n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Mr Rigel Anrndt wrote: [...]A: There are any plans to upgrade the OOo backbone to support the .NET framework?
B: There are any plans to upgrade the memory and file handling to "managed code"?
Could you please provide some links providing concise, low buzzword density definitions of Mono/.NET and "managed code"?
From the very little I currently know of .or have read about .NET it seemsit may be an immitation of Java as the result of losing the breach of contract suit from Sun for distributing a broken variant of Java designed to lock out non-MS platforms. As such, .NET likely has the same goals, but a trailing time 10 years after Java.
-Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents kill innovation and harm all Net-based business. Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
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