An interesting presentation, I’ll have to try out ubuntu again soon. Just a quick spelling correction – on slide 8 you say “C# was an life…” it should be “C# was a life…”.
These efforts are interesting, but very small. I may add a sentence or 2 about them in a later version of my book. So think of Microsoft as now 99.99999% proprietary. Also, even the example of IronPython that is free software, I learned at the Lang.Net conference that they are not set up to accept changes from the outside world.
I think the GPL is the best license, and MS doesn’t get free software when they don’t understand that.
The talk was recorded and the slides were posted at langnetsymposium.com, but the website appears to be down now. You aren’t missing much — most of the meat was put into those slides. If you want more info, check out my book. Regards
An interesting presentation, I’ll have to try out ubuntu again soon. Just a quick spelling correction – on slide 8 you say “C# was an life…” it should be “C# was a life…”.
All the best
Tim
Fixed that, thanks!
http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel/archive/2009/04/24/i-see-a-rosy-future-ahead-for-microsoft-and-open-source.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
Oops ?! 24 Apr 2009 ?!
These efforts are interesting, but very small. I may add a sentence or 2 about them in a later version of my book. So think of Microsoft as now 99.99999% proprietary. Also, even the example of IronPython that is free software, I learned at the Lang.Net conference that they are not set up to accept changes from the outside world.
I think the GPL is the best license, and MS doesn’t get free software when they don’t understand that.
Hello!
(Sorry for bring up this old post.)
I found your slides very interesting! Was you talk recorded by any chance? I would really like to listen to it.
Thanks!
The talk was recorded and the slides were posted at langnetsymposium.com, but the website appears to be down now. You aren’t missing much — most of the meat was put into those slides. If you want more info, check out my book. Regards