Let's see: Microsoft is going to be a better deal in terms of open code than Sun Microsystems? Hmmm? Guess I must have missed the banana boat on this one.
I guess since I am fed up because Sun won't let me have free rein with their code, I should ballyhoo C#, which will be 100 times more restrictive. Yah, that's the ticket. Why don't we get a dialogue going on why Sun is doing what it is doing and work towards solving the problem rather than supporting Mickey Mouse who would trade us for a pad of butter, if it were not for Sun's competition looming in the background. Micael At 07:12 PM 2/25/02 +1100, you wrote: >On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 18:29, Colin Chalmers wrote: > > It's good to know your enemy but lets not talk Java into it's grave. Just > > because MickySoft comes out with something to compete against Java people > > seem to be taking fright and already talking about ditching Java for C# > > thereby playing into Mickys hand. Has Micky got so powerful??? > >"mickysoft" ? Hmmm ... > >The Java people are not running scared - however many are fed up with the >steward of Java. There is plenty of people who would be willing to do a lot >to make java a betweer platform but due to licensing restraints can not. > >Theres plenty of crap features in java that could be easily fixed given an >open platform but wont be because it is not. > > > Let's look on it positively, a bit of competition for Java/Sun is perhaps > > no bad thing in itself :-) But already to be thinking about swinging to C# > > is a bit premature don't you think? > >Whos thinking? Of the two Apache projects that I am most involved with - both >already have C# ports of parts or all of them. There is ongoing porting of >other parts of these projects aswell. There is also external ports of other >projects I rely upon (namely a net port of junit). When the time comes when I >am forced to switch then it will be easy enough to do. > >I don't plan to ditch java just yet. JDK1.5 will contain enough improvements >in the core framework that it will be "good enough" for almost all my needs. >However thats a long way off - if the mono team or one of the other >opensource C# clones were to get hald as good as java is now then I would >definetly consider switchin - and I know a lot of other people who would also >do so. > >Its about putting control back into the developers hands and all really >depends on the way Sun handles it from here on in. > >-- >Cheers, > >Pete > >Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. > -- Voltaire > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
