Comments on: I know I have a one-track mind… http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/ Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:23:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mike Dolan http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24962 Mike Dolan Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:47:37 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24962 Not sure where Miguel becomes the official word of Microsoft there... I'm with Luis on his original post - there is a very odd line in the sand here and it just takes one wave to wipe it off the beach... if Silverlight implemented open, unencumbered standards - fine - but it doesn't. Microsoft proactively chose to recreate what other standards already did just to get it's own .NET / XAML implementation that will never have a "green light" for use in ways Microsoft does not officially grant. This is a step backwards (or two) b/c Moonlight puts a blanket of security over a ticking bomb. This will be no different than all the other codecs issues... Not sure where Miguel becomes the official word of Microsoft there… I’m with Luis on his original post - there is a very odd line in the sand here and it just takes one wave to wipe it off the beach… if Silverlight implemented open, unencumbered standards - fine - but it doesn’t. Microsoft proactively chose to recreate what other standards already did just to get it’s own .NET / XAML implementation that will never have a “green light” for use in ways Microsoft does not officially grant. This is a step backwards (or two) b/c Moonlight puts a blanket of security over a ticking bomb. This will be no different than all the other codecs issues…

]]> By: Stoffe http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24888 Stoffe Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:51:05 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24888 That link is where Miguel also writes: "OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with it. This is at a time when OOXML as a spec is in much better shape than any other spec on that space." Does anybody actually listen to that guy anymore? It doesn't really matter that you started GNOME (but hey, thanks!), if you start selling out at every opportunity later. That link is where Miguel also writes: “OOXML is a superb standard and yet, it has been
FUDed so badly by its competitors that serious people believe that
there is something fundamentally wrong with it. This is at a time when
OOXML as a spec is in much better shape than any other spec on that
space.”

Does anybody actually listen to that guy anymore? It doesn’t really matter that you started GNOME (but hey, thanks!), if you start selling out at every opportunity later.

]]> By: Luis Villa’s Blog / Simon Phipps and Moonlight give me an excuse to post a cool picture http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24884 Luis Villa’s Blog / Simon Phipps and Moonlight give me an excuse to post a cool picture Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:21:26 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24884 [...] 10 minutes after I posted yesterday, I found a great picture that I wanted to use to illustrate the post, but I’d already posted [...] [...] 10 minutes after I posted yesterday, I found a great picture that I wanted to use to illustrate the post, but I’d already posted [...]

]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24883 Luis Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:10:40 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24883 Mark: ah, very nice link. Thanks. Mark: ah, very nice link. Thanks.

]]> By: Mark http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24882 Mark Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:06:04 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24882 Well, according to Miguel: http://groups.google.com/group/tiraniaorg-blog-comments/browse_thread/thread/2a07b8b50038d8c8/2429b33859cf05c0#2429b33859cf05c0 > Will I have to suffer > the shadow of Microsoft patents over Silverlight when using or > developing Moonlight? Not as long as you get/download Moonlight from Novell which will include patent coverage. Well, according to Miguel:
http://groups.google.com/group/tiraniaorg-blog-comments/browse_thread/thread/2a07b8b50038d8c8/2429b33859cf05c0#2429b33859cf05c0

> Will I have to suffer
> the shadow of Microsoft patents over Silverlight when using or
> developing Moonlight?

Not as long as you get/download Moonlight from Novell which will include patent coverage.

]]> By: erik http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24870 erik Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:57:07 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24870 Where are those suggestions? In the minds of the people that see Novell doing all that (wonderful) stuff because they likely do have a permission for that. Slightly nasty in a way, but it isn't anything new. The same has happened and will, on other areas and with other technologies. Where are those suggestions? In the minds of the people that see Novell doing all that (wonderful) stuff because they likely do have a permission for that. Slightly nasty in a way, but it isn’t anything new. The same has happened and will, on other areas and with other technologies.

]]> By: Luis http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24867 Luis Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:47:52 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24867 Microsoft can choose to do whatever they want. But given the choices they appear to have made, implementing those technologies seems foolhardy, and suggesting that those implementations are somehow open or free seems (at best) deceptive. Microsoft can choose to do whatever they want. But given the choices they appear to have made, implementing those technologies seems foolhardy, and suggesting that those implementations are somehow open or free seems (at best) deceptive.

]]> By: erik http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24866 erik Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:42:56 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24866 So? They innovated by investing, they deserve to get something back for it. Without that there wouldn't be the ribbon UI at all. (I browsed through those three later examples of "prior art", they are not alike at all as they are not really context sensitive) <em>[Ed.: I took out the trollish part.]</em> So? They innovated by investing, they deserve to get something back for it. Without that there wouldn’t be the ribbon UI at all. (I browsed through those three later examples of “prior art”, they are not alike at all as they are not really context sensitive)

[Ed.: I took out the trollish part.]

]]> By: Open Source Fedora http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24873 Open Source Fedora Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/09/05/i-know-i-have-a-one-track-mind/#comment-24873 <!--%kramer-pre%-->- Sep 5, 2007 Murat Ugur EMINOGLU: Harddisk ve CPU sıcaklıklarını kontrol etmek için ufak bir script  - Sep 5, 2007 Hrishikesh Ballal: Show me the summer.  - Sep 5, 2007Luis Villa: I know I have a one-track mind… - Sep 5, 2007<!--%kramer-post%--> links from Technorati- Sep 5, 2007 Murat Ugur EMINOGLU: Harddisk ve CPU sıcaklıklarını kontrol etmek için ufak bir script  - Sep 5, 2007 Hrishikesh Ballal: Show me the summer.  - Sep 5, 2007Luis Villa: I know I have a one-track mind… - Sep 5, 2007

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