Hello Kurt!

*** 22.09.2003 at 01:57, Kurt Kuzba wrote to All:

 BS>>  I mean do you actually believe that Microsoft would make a
 BS>>  VM for Linux?

 KK>     The customer base is in web business.  The .net VM is only a 
 KK> useful tool if the web businesses are using it, making it more 
 KK> advantageous for the customers to have it too.  

Hmm.. I thought .NET was also working as application programming?

 KK> It makes more 
 KK> sense to supply a Linux .Net VM and to achieve market saturation 
 KK> than to not do so and thereby make it unnecessary for a portion  of
 KK> the computing world to have it.

I looked at the Mono project, they do allready has a C# compiler ready.

 BS>>  Sorry, I'm just sick of hearing Microsoft are _allways_ doing
 BS>>  the right thing, and Microsoft's products is _allways_ the
 BS>>  best...

 KK>     It is a large, well-paid team of programmers.  Money talks. 
 KK> They are focused, driven, goal oriented, and on a deadline. 
 KK> Microsoft just employs and directs ordinary programmers, whose 
 KK> only job is to produce working code for commercial distribution. 

In many ways Microsoft is doing well, but their products aren't sometimes
the bests, and their Software moral isn't IMHO good.

 KK> No mystery in that it is good, only in why it is not better.  Given
 KK> conditions, it should be utterly fantastic.  There must be  some
 KK> trade-off between focus and purpose, where the purpose must  become
 KK> to pick up a paycheck and the focus is determined by the 
 KK> management staff.  

Indeed.

 KK> That may be squelching the creative spark  which
 KK> should be common in a hive of programmers.  Or would a  collective
 KK> of programmers be called an array?  :)

Heh, I doubt so.

Regards,
        Bo

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