Roger Filomeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okey, i got the chance to sit down and have coffee with a friend last > night who is totally MS dev and we had these discussions: > > Opensource is screwed more towards service oriented market, while MS > is screwed towards product oriented market. > > If i develop under MS, i usually build applications for distribution. > It is important that the features, ideas and technology of the product > is protected, thats why they are distributed as compiled binary > packages w/ licenses to protect the source code and the technology > used. The tools i use are costly since they provide the abstraction > between MS OS and my applications, these tools are required so MS can > protect their source code/technology but still allows other products > to run under MS; thats why we usually ask for the API - today we have > MSDN to take care of that (the new developers are lucky, we used to > hack our way into windows before) > > If i develop under OSS,i usually build services for use. These > services are mostly used by existing applications (OSS or MS) or to > provide new technologies and capabilites. These services are supported > by releasing opensource applications which OSS community may revise > and enchance. There is no danger in distributing technologies along > with these application under OSS since this would ensure that the > technology advances and mature faster allowing more diverse services > to be built using that technology; a mutual symbiosis. > > In short, MS dev needs to dominate/protect their sourcode and > tecnology to survive while OSS needs to share and innovate to survive. >
Good insight. > Thats why it's scary for an MS dev company to think that their latest > prorietary software be suddenly available to public - its their bread > and butter. Then here comes OSS who seems to be able to provide the > same technology at lower cost; the worst part is..OSS is giving away > these technologies for free. > > It is an innate nature of technology to be transferrable since we, the > technology users, needed to interact to survive. Its a universal law, > energy must be transfered in one form or another, same analogy goes > with technology and anything else. > > We always say in the security world that there is no such thing as > secure system, if there is a way to build something, there is always a > way to destroy it ( 4lph4 and 0m3g4 ;p). Even if how hard we try to > proctect and hold these technologies for our advantage, someone else > will always figure it out.. someone will always build a better one; > when this happens, we MS developers aways brand them as > copycats/"me-too"'s -- Well, that is like saying we believe are the > only ones in entire universe! (so what if there are other life out > there and they also have MS, can we sue? ;p). > Have you by some chance been reading a lot of philosophical books lately? Or perhaps you finished AB Philo? You're damn good... :p > > Let's not dwell too much in these subjects, the important thing is > that the dynamics between the battle of OSS and proprietary/MS exposes > new oppurtunities. i say let MS join the OSS scheme of things, it > would make the lives of developers much easier by being able to > reverse engineer MS better ;p (and ofcourse build better applications, > lower dev MS cost, & etc) > Yes. Resistance if futile. M$ *will* be assimilated. :D Cheers, Zakame -- |=-------------ZAK B. ELEP (Registered Linux User #327585)-------------=| || Web: http://zakame.spunge.org GPG ID: 0xFA53851D || || http://zakame.homelinux.org ICQ UIN: 33236644 || || Location: Daet, Camarines Norte Running Linux 2.6 || |=----------1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D----------=| Debian - When you've got better things to do than to fix a borken system
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