It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again
"You could probably waste an entire day on the preceding links alone. But why take chances? We also give you Paul Snively..." — John Wiseman, lemonodor
Doing a diff of the Liberty Alliance charter members and the latest released member list, shows that the following organizations have for some reason or another left Liberty.
American Airlines, the Apache Software Foundation, Cingular Wireless, CollabNet, Dun & Bradstreet, eBay, Global Crossing, i2, Liberate Technologies, O'Reilly & Associates, Sprint, Travelocity.
I would be especially sad about losing Apache Foundation, CollabNet, O'Reilly and eBay. The three former represent developer community outreach, while the latter is apparently fully commited to it's .NET My Services alliance with Microsoft.
Indeed, another interesting observation is that Brian Behlendorf, Apache co-founder and president and CollabNet co-founder and CTO, has joined the PingID advisory board.
Can someone please explain to me again why we need a Liberty Alliance and PingID andOpenPrivacy? What security paradigm will the Liberty Alliance and PingID implement? How do Liberty Alliance and PingID model reputation and trust? Where's the code for the Liberty Alliance? With PingID initially being written in C, how long will it take before the first buffer-overrun exploit is unearthed?
Frankly, it sounds to me like .NET and Hailstorm engendered a panic in the non-Microsoft community and now the ants are scrambling to build a new anthill. Wonder who'll end up owning it?
8:23:11 AM
The .NET team on VB.NET... Until the release of .NET, VB has been positioned as the programming tool for "the rest of us"... In my opinion this move, while supposedly benefiting VB, actually removed the rational for its existence... It now appears that the .NET team is looking for ways to differentiate VB.NET as the entry level language... [Lambda the Ultimate]
The differences between C# and VB.Net are as gratuitous and confusing as the differences between C# and Java.
With VB.Net Microsoft has abandoned the entry level, non-CS-major, programmer. Well, the previous version or two were not much more appropriate. Perhaps less because they were so kludgy.
