Friday, January 23, 2004

Mono & Patents - one step forward, two steps back? Finally, Miguel steps up and declares a strategy for addressing patents in mono... http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=5746&offset=75&rows=90#190589 and so mono, which aims to replace the multiple language bindings of Gnome/GTK with a unified approach, will itself have parallel API's to dodge the patent bullet if (when?) it is fired??? I can't help but think there's more to this story. Mr or Ms ISV is going to make a choice to build on the patent-encumbered API which is a ticking time bomb, or the other one which may or may not hold up in court and which is most certainly less debugged? It's progress to acknowledge the patent issue, but I still get the sense that despite the SCO mess and MS's new FAT licensing plan (IMO a prototype for .NET IP monetization), Miguel still doesn't take it seriously. 1:04:53 PM      comment []  trackback []

From the arch mailing list (courtesy of Talli) Hi All, I finally managed to get tla working on my cygwin based environment. Read more about it on http://www.geocities.com/lode_leroy/arch/ there are also precompiled binaries there. have a try and let me know. I managed to create an archive, import a version, commit changes, get a revision, commit changes, update the revision, list remote archives etc. now I can start learning arch :-) -- lode Right after I get my remote CVS repository setup and primed with content, ssh keys and tortoisecvs etc. etc. worked out for my desktop and laptop. Yep, that figures. 12:38:25 PM      comment []  trackback []