Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java

Rob Landley
2001-06-20T20:12:09Z

On Wednesday 20 June 2001 13:03, Tony Hoyle wrote:

> (Just came back from a .NET conference... MS are currently rewriting
> all their apps in bytecode... whoopee... They're even porting *games*
> to run on it. I can see it now 'MS Flight Simulator .NET' (Requires
> quad Pentium 4 1.6Ghz minimum) :-o )

Well, that ought to make Intel happy. The price of a new desktop box around
these parts has dropped to about $250, and that comes preassembled. $25 for
ram, $80 hard drive, $40 processor in ~$30 motherboard, and the floppy, case,
power supply, and keyboard are all a rounding error. The monitor's still
expensive, but those are recycled from system to system and you can get a 17
inch for $99 from goodwill computers.

So how exactly DOES MS expect to stop the Linux folks from reverse
engineering .NET apps? Patents? Giving up on the client side and moving to
an ASP business model (toe to toe with AOL)? Constant gratuitous
compatability changes to try to prevent all those nasty GPL viruses from
evolving an immunity to their new proprietary drug? (Without, of course,
being obvious enough to trigger a third antitrust trial after the 1995 and
1998 ones...)

Just curious...

> Tony