Jeff Roberts wrote: > > Paul, > > I know, I am an old Unix Programmer that now loves .NET ! As a matter of fact I was >programming before Unix was around ! I have seen a lot of old Unix programmers end >up in the unemployment line because they failed to change with the times and I am >afraid this is just another case !
Hmmm... So you know the techical issues, and still you promote the Microsoft party line? How do you sleep at night? And how do you explain the fact that Unix talent is so highly valued in the marketplace? There are some of us who know that this change to a monoculture, buggy, hard-to-use, and insecure-by-design OS that's being forced on the public by a monopoly is *not* a good thing. We believe that an alternative is possible and are working to make it happen. We'll probably interoperate with .NET, but we won't likely give up decades of progress just because boosters of the monopoly claim that the battle is lost. > I looks like OpenSSL will stay a mostly Unix product, which means it won't be an >integral part of the Desktop since Microsoft own 95% of the desktop ! I'm not following you. OpenSSL is Unix software that runs fine on Microsoft's miserable OS. What's the problem? If it is useful, someone will figure out how to use it with .NET. If using it with .NET means re-implementing it in a new language that only exists on Windows, that's a problem for .NET, not for OpenSSL. Paul Allen -- Boeing Phantom Works \ Paul L. Allen, (425) 865-3297 Math & Computing Technology \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] POB 3707 M/S 7L-40, Seattle, WA 98124-2207 \ Prototype Systems Group ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
