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Bah... not impressed. Wake me up when they open source Windows Forms. 
/ravi
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Oracle's Java VP discusses J2EE, OpenJDK, security woes, and the long gap before Java 7. "Yes there were times I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew"
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Failure #1: Someone let the architecture astronauts into the room. Since when is it OK to have an AbstractWidgetFactoryProviderConfigurator class? .Net has some of that, but it's run rampant over just about every Java project I've ever laid eyes on.
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Frickin' 100% agreement here. 
TTFN - Kent
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In addition to Vark111's excellent point, I'd like to add the inclusion of Bloatware in the runtime distribution as a major failure - it makes me try to avoid installing Java on every machine I'm in contact with.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The tech industry changes so quickly that it often feels like many of the tools and techniques you’re using today were all but unknown two years ago. Assuming you want to compete with everyone else learning those skills
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Learn how to suck up to your boss, get promoted to management, let the un-learning begin
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Diffie-Hellman downgrade weakness allows attackers to intercept encrypted data. Oh, the irony: "only Internet Explorer has been updated to protect end users"
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By wresting control of Windows 10 mobile updates away the carriers, Microsoft continues to show that it's learned from decades of mistakes surrounding OS updates. We'll see how the carriers react
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Kent Sharkey wrote: By wresting control of Windows 10 mobile updates away the carriers, Microsoft continues to show that it's learned from decades of mistakes surrounding OS updates.
So Microsoft has been pushing out Windows mobile updates over GPRS/3G/4G for decades? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Richard Stallman, the free software activist and author of some of the world's most used and useful software, probably uses his computer and the Internet a lot differently than you do. "People said I should accept the world. I don't accept the world."
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I stopped because the OLPC project decided to make their machine support Windows, so I did not want to appear to endorse it. The OLPC uses a nonfree firmware blob for the WiFi, so I could not use the internal WiFi device.
OK, this guy, I don't care who he is or what he's done, is a certifiable lunatic.
I know people like this. They try to get everything for free, thinking they are socially conscious, not realizing that the entire freaking infrastructure, their very ability to even exist on the planet, is the result of the hard work of others. Just because you think you use something "for free" doesn't mean that there hasn't been a cost associated with it.
People like this are so freaking naive.
Marc
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He always makes me think of the Jack D. Ripper character from Dr. Strangelove for some reason. Everything is about purity with him.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: He always makes me think of the Jack D. Ripper character from Dr. Strangelove for some reason.
Jack D. Ripper quote from the movie:
Your Commie has no regard for human life, not even his own. And for this reason, men, I want to impress upon you the need for extreme watchfulness.
Wow, does that sounds familiar!
Marc
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If you're not at the top of the pyramid, you do not want to look up.
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He has the right to live that way. And also to tell others they should follow suit (no one has to, though).
His talking about "free" is not about refusing to pay altogether. It's mostly about anonymity. And money leaves a trail that can be followed. So free services reduce the risk to breaking anonymity. And if there's no free alternative, then it's okay to not take part, or to create your own.
And he is one of the others that have done some of the hard work.
Just in case I haven't been clear: I like that guy.
Ciao,
luker
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I don't think he is so much concerned with "free" as he is concerned with "freedom". There's a major difference between the two.
There's no doubt he's a smart guy, and he is the founder of the GNU project. He has stated before that his issue with proprietary software is not related to its costs but to fact that it can't be modified by the end user, and therefore limits their freedoms with it.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Dominic Burford wrote: no doubt he's a smart guy
It's true, but with a kind of too-focused smartness that can lead you to the closed ward...
Dominic Burford wrote: that it can't be modified by the end user
And he totally ignorant to the fact that 99.9% percent of the end users can't even imagine where to start such modification...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Quote: And he totally ignorant to the fact that 99.9% percent of the end users can't even imagine where to start such modification
As we all know, customers ALWAYS have additional requirements for their software, after all it's what keeps us both in paid work. It doesn't have to be the customer themselves who is making the modifications, but another developer working on their behalf.
You need to fully understand where he is coming from to fully appreciate what he is saying. His main point of contention is that software should be open to extension by anyone. Either directly, or indirectly (such as paying someone else to make modifications on our behalf).
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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As for pure software it is a reality - you only have to choose and there is a software option for free...
When software directly bounded to hardware (like device drivers) it is not about software, but about public, and full, hardware specifications...
As not Stallman I do see why hardware companies not want to release all that knowledge - after all it is about money...So I do not agree with Stallman, that if there is no free software you certainly have some evil behind it!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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To be fair, a large part of that infrastructure is now built using tools originally created by Stallman.
(GCC in particular springs to mind, plus a hell of the lot of the miscellaneous free UNIX tools are created by him or the GNU team).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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What a wacko.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Because why would you do things the easy way?
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It is not new to me that Stallman has a twisted mind...but why tell the others about it?
Personally I have no problem that my name connected to online purchases or someone can check what sites I visited in the past week - it hurts in no-way my privacy...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Personally I have no problem that my name connected to online purchases or
someone can check what sites I visited in the past week - it hurts in no-way my
privacy
Not only is it an invasion of privacy, it hurts your safety.
Imagine what could happen if a homophobic government came to power. Or when a certain class of religious people is deemed "terrorists". Don't say that it can't happen again - it is already happening.
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