Notable Quotes:
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Is Windows Antique?
SILICON VALLEY -- The first ever antique mall devoted to computers has
opened its doors deep in the heart of Silicon Valley. Named "Stacks
of Antiqueues", the new mall features obsolete hardware, old software,
and other curiosities that only a nerd would want to buy. The mall
also features a whole collection of Microsoft software, which, as can
be expected, has the Redmond giant up in arms.
The mall, founded by a group of Linux, FreeBSD, and BeOS users, has a
whole
section devoted to Microsoft "antiques". Offerings range from a rare
(and expensive) copy of Windows 1.0 all the way up to Windows 98. All
versions of DOS from 1.0 up are available, in addition to such Microsoft
products as Bob, Profit, and Multiplan.
Bob Hinesdorf, one of the mall's founders, defends the decision to
include Microsoft products in its selection of antique computer stuff.
"Windows 98 is surely antique; it's based on 16 bit Windows 3.x code,
which was based on 16 bit DOS code, which was based loosely on 8 bit
CP/M."
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Open Source Beer Revolution
Yesterday, Red Hat introduced an 'open source' beer called Red Brew. The
recipes for making the beer are available for free over the Net, and
microbrewery kits are available at low cost from Red Hat. Says a Red Hat
spokesman, "With the proliferation of free (open source) software, it
was only
a matter of time before open source beer became reality. After all,
the only
thing hackers like more than free software is free beer!"
Following the Red Hat annoucement, other companies are racing to
launch their
own beer 'distribution'. Caldera is developing an OpenBrew beer.
Meanwhile,
Patrick Volkerding is working on a SlackBeer distribution, and
DebianBrew is
expected soon.
Traditional breweries and beer distributors are not thrilled about
open source
beer. "This is ludicrous! People want beer that comes from
time-tested, secret
recipes -- not beer from recipes invented overnight! Open source is a
fad," a
spokesman for Buddwizzer Beer, Inc. said. In addition, other beverage
distributors are nervous. "First open source beer, and soon open
source soft
drinks! Before we know it, we'll have RedCoke and SlackPepsi! This
open source
plague must be stopped before it eats into our bottom line! Don't
quote me on
that last sentence," the CEO of Croak-a-Cola said.
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Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough,
but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.
Jurassic Park, that is.
-- Larry Wall in <[email protected]>
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He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"
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I'll say it again for the logic impaired.
-- Larry Wall
Larry must be talking about Microsoft's "extend, enhance, extinguish"
MO LOL
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"...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly)."
(By Matt Welsh)
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Regards,
LelandJ
On 05/13/2014 03:09 PM, [email protected] wrote:
oops...forgot the [NF]
On 2014-05-13 16:09, [email protected] wrote:
Per Beth Massi's blog post entitled "Exciting Times for .NET":
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2014/04/10/exciting-times-for-net.aspx
"There was a lot of love given to us .NET developers, and at the same
time cross-platform development permeated the hallways."
'This highlights the change of attitude across all our teams to really
embrace open source and cross-platform development in the “New
Microsoft”. '
"You asked for it, you got it. .NET Native, Open, and Cross-platform."
Alright Ed, Ted, Whil, Alan, Dave, Stephen, Greg Gum, Chad Bourque, et
al. Time to come back to Microsoft. They're listening now.
:-)
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