Right and I do too. May I request your attention on my last reply Sir? Regards, jd
On 7/4/10, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 7/4/10 09:06 , Oscar Hsieh wrote: >> Not necessary. I believe that open source and proprietary >> languages/platforms/softwares will coexist for long time. > > I agree, as I consider this to be the normal thing. I'm a strong > advocate of FLOSS, but I don't think that non-FLOSS things are > necessarily bad. It's good to have both, since it's more choice for > people. > > FLOSS, indeed, could have some bad time ahead, in some sectors, if the > forecast about the new penetration of smartphones/iStuff are right; > that is if a huge portion of people will have smartphones/pads as the > only point of contact with computer technology and services. My point > is that those people won't get in touch with the "classic" computer > science culture, thus bypassing the current state of the art of FLOSS > culture. They'll be only focused on having that app/service, caring > the less (even zero) about technicalities. I don't even know how to > explain FLOSS to this kind of people, as mentioning "source code" is a > technicality (I've extensively blogged about that, if you want more > points). Add that iPhone/iPad are the perfect opposite of FLOSS and > you complete the point. > > Recently Simon Phipps mentioned this aspect is one of the things that > OSI should work on, and I think he's right, but I'd like to know what > are the things that they are going to do. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkwweFgACgkQeDweFqgUGxcQfwCdF6hncsK2Pci5Od8g+5bHF2hU > xXUAoK4WypK0UPG0hob3+D9FIlIzGP4R > =1tLB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
