Monday, January 13, 2003

Andrews the Simpleton He has never really understood anything deeply in his Seattle Times technology musings, but this one... "Other open-source vendors are starting to charge, or will eventually. As long as the cost is less than or even equal to Microsoft's equivalent packages, open source will retain a certain savings appeal. " Click here to read the article This statement demonstrates complete ignorance of the software value proposition. Stating that Open Source's value lies in it's relative cost to cost ratio is a dream of the lonely hobbiest. Software capabilty and value lies in what you can do with the software and it's optimizations for task. Currently the Windows operating system platform combined the software development tools of VS.NET provide a return on investment unmatched by anyone else. 6:02:42 PM     GM Hy-Wire Electric Car/Skateboard This is just so right for us to do. Bleeding off the dependancies of the internal combustion engine needs to start now! Given a resonable price or tax incintive, I think this would really work. 5:47:55 PM     Tommy can you Feel Me? Oh man, it is just too much to see every icon of my youth fall from grace. Pete Townsend was arrested in a child porn sting in the UK. I have nothing but disgust for what this stuff is, but the Internet is full of debauchery and pornography. There needs to be some move to ring-fence the adult stuff and regulate it. This has to happen as the responsible use of resource is not to abuse the public and be "damned" with decency standards. Update: Jerry Hall defends Townsend... 5:15:29 PM     SOAP Routing Techniques in .NET Embedded routing increases the safety of SOAP messages. 5:06:19 PM

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