Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-02-01 Thread Mike M
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 07:58:55PM -0500, Al Davis wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2004 04:11 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up "tainted" > > if you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software > > thereafter could be difficult. > > Th

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-31 Thread Nano Nano
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:51:14AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..the good side of this AFAICT, is my wee linux business will survive > another coupla years, before the big landslide of ex-MSCE etc hits. ;-) I was a MCSD thank you :-) I got mine in 1995 on the NT 3.51, VB 3.0, and Access 2.0 rou

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:11:37 +, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows > > CE.NET source which is freely available. It's a for

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-31 Thread Day Brown
Colin Watson wrote: > > You can probably read the Windows code by looking at the Windows CE.NET > > source which is freely available. It's a fork. You can get a flavor of > > it. If you try real hard, you can probably via a University take a look > > at the source -- Microsoft is handing out r

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Al Davis
On Friday 30 January 2004 07:58 pm, Al Davis wrote: > On Friday 30 January 2004 04:11 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > > But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up "tainted" > > if you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software > > thereafter could be difficult. > > This is t

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Nano Nano
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:51:13PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > And a bit friendlier to those who get dumped on their ass due to > unforseen circumstances. The whole idea of credit ratings tends to > cause a lot of false positives for people who intend to pay but lose > their job or get screwed by

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > We need to tear down the entire internet and start over with proper > encryption from the ground up. That's what ipv6 is. Bug your ISP for it. > We need to tear down the entire credit >

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Al Davis
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > ...  Microsoft > > does tend to use gotos for error exits. Nothing wrong with this. It is called "throwing an exception". C++ and java have keywords "try", "catch", "throw" to make it official. > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Colin Watson: > > But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up "tainted" if > you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software thereafter Besides, considering their record so far, what (of any value) could possibly be learned from them? From what I've seen

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I used to have read-only access to that codebase. The code is actually > pretty clean and maintainable (what I read). Microsoft does tend to use > gotos for error exits. Good-oh. The Linux kernel does that too. :) "GOTO considered ha

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Nano Nano
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:05:36PM -0800, Day Brown wrote: > women barefoot and pregnant. The only thing they want, they only thing > they have always wanted, is more sons to go into battle to steal more > women for the alpha male warrior class leaders. That's what they been > doing, in Iraq and el

Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Day Brown
llagers are way ahead of us. Which is why Isolationism is History. If the net takes a serious hit from sabotage or just plain simple stupid greed cutting corners, and it goes down, the police and law enforcement can go down, banking and credit card servers will quit, the economy will tank, and we'