Ted Leung on the air
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Tue, 17 Jun 2003
Languages vs protocols
Ben Hyde's delightful
article about scripting languages captures the essence of my recent ponderings about an open source CLR:
[00:57] |
[computers/programming/dotnet] |
# |
TB |
F |
G |
0 Comments |
People tend to get all fixated on the role of protocols (XML et. al.) as the tool for creating openness and interoperability across the Internet. That maybe a mistake. It maybe we should be a lot more conscience about the role of a diverse population of languages in this game. That a world of one language is, in time, a monotheistic world. That world, while possibly somewhat more efficient, encourages a monopoly.
"Stand by for the hurricane": SCO vs IBM
Via CNet news:
[00:51] |
[computers/operating_systems/linux] |
# |
TB |
F |
G |
0 Comments |
In a statement, IBM said it will stand behind its products and customers, but raised an intellectual-property issue that SCO so far has skirted: patents. "IBM will continue to ship, support and develop AIX, which represents years of IBM innovation, hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and many patents," IBM said. "I think that's a clear signal," said Gray Cary, an attorney at Mark Radcliffe, who said that a company's first response to an intellectual-property infringement lawsuit is a countersuit based on that company's patents. "I think that's code for 'stand by for the hurricane.' You're going to find a stack of patents about 5-feet high that your product infringes that's going to run up the cost of litigation.'"I definitely would not want to be receiving a 5 foot (or higher) stack of patent infringements from IBM...