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  • Linux Just Another OpenSource Photo-Copy Job?

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    “According to the study, it's safe to argue that Tanenbaum, who had years of OS experience and who had seen the Unix source code, could create Minix in three years. "However, it is highly questionable that Linus, still just a student, with virtually no operating systems development experience, could do the same, especially in one-sixth of the time," says the study, which was written by Ken Brown, president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution.“ [1]

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  • Mono Already Dead?

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    Seth Nickell thinks Mono is to encumbered by Microsoft and too full of risks to be a viable option. Paulo and Miguel  have already sufficiently discussed this topic, and nothing Seth has to say leads me to believe otherwise. The simple fact is that the Open Source community NEEDs a managed execution environment upon which they can standardize and a set of base class libraries to go with it, or they absolutely will not be able to compete in the coming years. The only other reasonable choice is Java, and it faces much more of these kinds of issues that Seth raises. Of course, the most patent-free route would be for the Open Source community to innovate and create some of their own stuff instead of photo-copying other people's ideas... but when is the last time that happened?

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  • Ventuz Acquired By Microsoft?

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    A while back, there was a lot of noise around a presentation tool from this company “Ventuz“ that was being used for a lot of MS conferences to make super slick 3d-ized PowerPoint presentations. Shortly thereafter, the company disappeared off the map. In fact, now, the “we will be updating our site soon“ message that used to be found at their domain has been replaced with a nice, IE “this page cannot be found“ message. So, will this slick C#/Managed DirectX app be one of the first super slick Longhorn Office upgrades? We'll see, but it wouldn't suprise me in the least.

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