i agree! most open-source projects that have any measure of success are mostly "me-too" implementations of stuff you see in proprietary software.
i'm still not sure about Mono though. it looks like yet another "me-too" effort, though some of Miguel de Icaza's arguments for Mono seem compelling. i'm still on a wait-and-see mode as far as mono is concerned. in the meantime, i'll still rely on Java for my bread and butter. just my 2 cents. :-) joel --- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- 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
