Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:24:50 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfg1+@pitt.edu> To: Bzdik BSD <bzdik@yahoo.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft giving back to FreeBSD !! Message-ID: <3B3A3302.9AD2020A@pitt.edu> References: <20010627190113.47543.qmail@web13607.mail.yahoo.com>
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Bzdik BSD wrote: > > --- Pedro F Giffuni <pfg1+@pitt.edu> wrote: > > This is very cool! > > > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/06/27/dotnet.html > > Yes, it is. Yet he essentially says thayt they have the right to take > the other people's work and screw the rest of the world over and over > again. e.g. when they talk about Kerberos 'hooks'. > As I just wrote to a friend: # TBH, I'm tired of waiting for a decent Java implementation on FreeBSD. # Microsoft not only chose FreeBSD as the reference platform, they will # show everyone the source code. # # Hell it is tempting! They will surely make extensions and sell them with high profits, but with SUN we don't see the code, much less ANY support. (No offense to out Java porting team, they are doing a good job but there's not much they can do without SUN's interest.) Pedro. ps...OK...I honestly don't work for Microsoft. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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