Comment Re:Streisand Effect (Score 1) 87
interestingly enough there is a texas lawyer who calls himself "the texas hammer". bonus points for guessing his specialty.
Comment Re:The Flaw Lurking Deep in Slashdot Beta (Score 1) 230
It's going to cost Slashdot their user base as more people refuse to put up with this nonsense. Dice is ruining its own investment.
You can't polish a turd.
of course you can. and then you have a shiny turd.
IBM Releases Open Source EGL Development Tools 50
New submitter dd1968 writes "Today IBM announced the release of a new set of Open Source development tools based on their EGL programming language. The announcement describes the tools as being built from the ground up on an 'open, extensible compiler and generator framework.' The one-language approach places an abstraction layer between the developer and target languages, frameworks, and runtime platforms."
Comment say YES to a structural remedy (Score 1) 571
Assume, for a moment, the licensing problems can be satisfactorily resolved (whatever that means).
Then, for opening the source to work, it would be necessary to open all current and future Windows source. And, further, future source would have to be released on a timely enough basis that MS apps couldn't derive a significant advantage in using any new APIs. Note that it is not necessary to have "secret" APIs. It is enough to have exclusive early access to them.
Even given that MS would put forth a "good faith" effort, implementation would be a nightmare for all involved and oversight an even bigger one.
It therefore seems to me that a structural remedy (at a minmum of breaking up MS into an OS company and an applications company), is the best (and simplest) action to take.
Personally, given the power, I would also invoke HUGE penalties against the company and consider jail time for some of the people who were (ahem) less than forthcoming in the hearings...even those on videotape.
Then, for opening the source to work, it would be necessary to open all current and future Windows source. And, further, future source would have to be released on a timely enough basis that MS apps couldn't derive a significant advantage in using any new APIs. Note that it is not necessary to have "secret" APIs. It is enough to have exclusive early access to them.
Even given that MS would put forth a "good faith" effort, implementation would be a nightmare for all involved and oversight an even bigger one.
It therefore seems to me that a structural remedy (at a minmum of breaking up MS into an OS company and an applications company), is the best (and simplest) action to take.
Personally, given the power, I would also invoke HUGE penalties against the company and consider jail time for some of the people who were (ahem) less than forthcoming in the hearings...even those on videotape.
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