On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:35:43 +0800, Roger Filomeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. microsoft has "seen the light". he is out-numbered and > out-witted by the opensource community.
I would hardly call them out-witted! do you know how many visual basic developers there are? they totally outnumber the open-source crowd. and the open-source crowd isn't particularly innovative. where is the visual studio .NET of open source? heck.. where is the .NET Framework (or equivalent -- J2EE is not OSS either) of open-source? > Basically m$ wants also a part of the brain pool, they are loosing > ideas on what to stick into windoze ;p A common complaint against both KDE and GNOME is that they have nothing new interface-wise. they just ape features in the closed-source GUI's like windows XP and macos X. > Anyway its a good idea, as long as proprietary OS such as windows > exist.. specialist like us in both fields (opensource and windows) > will have lots of work, building interopearatibility solutions ;p well i'm counting on Mono to come through. interoperability, guaranteed. :) it's like the promise of Java, with a nicer language and nicer toolset. although i must add -- .NET Framework free as in beer, with free command-line compilers; and Visual Studio Express free as in beer -- i don't think these would ever happen if M$ didn't feel threatened by Linux/OSS. but STILL -- deriding M$ as "running out of ideas" etc. is wrong. they have more ideas in there than the OSS community, which, with the exception of people like Linus and Miguel (and similar) are a bunch of college students with too much time on their hands. side-note. PBA Finals Game 4. a measly 500mhz pentium-III. 700 simultaneous video streaming connections, windows media server. i was surprised myself! didn't know windows was up to that. moral of the story: M$ has decent, even excellent solutions. the OSS crowd shouldn't be congratulating itself for innovation, because there's not much innovation in OSS. the OSS crowd *should* congratulate itself for forcing M$ to be honest and to continually strive to make their products better. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
