Maybe finally people will have to pass exams testing *understanding* of the subject in contrast to knowing how to apply patterns and rewriting systems to solve simple taks that are computer solvable now. It's always good to see the bar going higher.

well guess who controls the media :P

(+ there are rumors libertas has some unclear fund

- MS Visual Studio, really, don't look for an alternative on windows if you don't have to, it is the best IDE available.

- Qt Creator for Qt on linux/Windows as Qt is missing msvc integration from the free version, waiting for kdevelop4 to get a little more stable

- netbeans + c++ plugin for interplatform projects that cannot be done with qt.

which is not true at least in europe, as the protocol itself as an idea can not be copyrighted, instead what they are copyrighting is the way it was released/documented i.e. in code or in docs. any of these ways is copyrighted. the licence clause that the protocol itself is copyrighted is obviously invalid.

in short, if you take code from mysql client implementation than you must adhere to the copyright - if you learn how the protocol works and write your own implementation of it, you are not constrained by the copyright.

so much for europe, for the states, well I guess it won't take long until corporation will be allowed to issue we-want-to-rape-your-girlfriend DMCA notice.

not really, actually their argument of making it the right way seems sensible to me. I guess if I had to interpret the spec like that I would do it this way - the way it is understandable, logical and most important predictable.

if there is no spec, then interopability can be fixed on any side, if my resolution seems sensible I would go and argue for people on the other side to work with it.

Also just take a look at tracked changes, please, interopability with what? I'm no MS fanboi, but it is just humiliating how their engineers managed to kick the standard/most popular opensource ODF implementation in the very nuts, and no FUD involved to...

oh just get the f**k out if you can't even release a proper standard:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/13/tracked-changes.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2009/05/09/1-2-1.aspx

seriously, get the f**k out. openoffice is a piece of garbage, with the stability of a mind of a psychic killer, at least have the guts not to speak badly of other implementations if you can neither draft the standard nor implement it correctly.