On Tue, November 14, 2006 1:17 am, Wade Curry wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 01:07:23AM -0800 > wrote: >> >> Wow. I thought I was close to the mark, but that sure looks like a >> smoking gun to me. >> >> Personally, if I ever needed a solid reason to avoid C#, that seals it. >> > > Ever since C# came out, I've had this hunch that "cee-sharp" was a > mispronunciation. As it turns out, we should've been calling it > "cee-POUND". MS seemed like they developed .NET out of sheer > grumpiness at not being able to play as loosely with Sun's > licensing as they'd become accustomed. So, now all they've > gained is a tool they can hammer people with in court. Of course, > none of us are surprised, but Novell apparently will be... when > they wake up. I rather thought they'd have seen it before anyone > else.
I suspect if we could read Novell's mind and perhaps books, we'd see that they were deathly afraid of becoming irrelavant. Kind of like Tony Blair signing on for Iraq ;-) -- Lan Barnes Tcl/Tk Enthusiast SCM Analyst Linux Guy Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
