Re: [unicon] Re: [Unicon-group] Gentoo ebuild

2005-01-19 Thread Barry . Schwartz
Kosta Tachtevrenidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the first steps have been taken. If you go to my website > (www.tachtevrenidis.com) and scroll all the way down, you will find an > ebuild I did for unicon last summer. Maybe you could improve it or > simply get ideas off it. Thanks! -- [EMAIL

Re: [Unicon-group] Gentoo ebuild

2005-01-19 Thread Kosta Tachtevrenidis
Barry, the first steps have been taken. If you go to my website (www.tachtevrenidis.com) and scroll all the way down, you will find an ebuild I did for unicon last summer. Maybe you could improve it or simply get ideas off it. to infinity, Kosta Tachtevrenidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm writi

Re: [unicon] Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Wampler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the most effective way to approach this is "What is the problem? How can we solve it?" and then make it work with .NET, but so it is not tied to .NET. If the purpose is merely to provide a complete wrapper around .NET, then I don't think it is worth the trouble. W

Re: [unicon] Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Barry . Schwartz
Shamim Mohamed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/19/2005, "Clint Jeffery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> admits: > > [I don't] like Microsoft (I used to)... > > I enjoy Microsoft bashing as a form of light entertainment rather than > > negative > > energy... > > Ha! You can take a boy out of Seattle, but yo

Re: [unicon] Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Barry . Schwartz
Federico Balbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jut a note... thanks M$ I have a job... I would say instead that thanks to M$ your job makes you work on M$. People wouldn't have eschewed computers had Bill Gates never been born. Maybe they would have used them yet more. If we are to remain creative

Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Shamim Mohamed
On 1/19/2005, "Clint Jeffery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> admits: > [I don't] like Microsoft (I used to)... > I enjoy Microsoft bashing as a form of light entertainment rather than > negative > energy... Ha! You can take a boy out of Seattle, but you can't the Seattle out of a boy. Clint shows himself t

Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Shamim Mohamed
Nevin :-] Liber wrote: > What really saddens me is the sheer amount of negative energy this > community espouses towards Microsoft. Well, I think it's safe to say that Microsoft has earned this negative energy through their predatory business practices and the sheer crappiness of so much of their

Re: [unicon] Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Barry . Schwartz
Steve Wampler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nevin :-] Liber wrote: > >What really saddens me is the sheer amount of negative energy this > >community espouses towards Microsoft. This certainly isn't the Icon > >community of my youth. It used to be a place that encouraged, not > >discouraged, as

Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Federico Balbi
Jut a note... thanks M$ I have a job... if I go around just supporting Linux I would probably be unemployed. Hate or not the point is that MS is the most used platform so Unicon for Windows is only good for Unicon. It's funny though too see how many Linux supporters slash M$ haters send their comp

Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Steve Wampler
Nevin :-] Liber wrote: Yet Icon itself was "Free as in Free" (aka public domain), which Stallman also disdains. Hi Nevin, Stallman isn't a god. He has a specific agenda, which I happen to agree with *in part*. I like public domain, though the threat of abuse (e.g. splintering Icon into incompati

Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Clint Jeffery
[Nevin writes:] > What really saddens me is the sheer amount of negative energy this > community espouses towards Microsoft. This certainly isn't the Icon > community of my youth. It used to be a place that encouraged, not > discouraged, as many platforms as possible. Not anymore. Heh heh,

Re: [Unicon-group] advancing the cause of Unicon

2005-01-19 Thread Nevin :-] Liber
At 10:11 PM -0700 12/27/04, Gene Arthur wrote: Watching the dotnet discussion, just wondering does anyone have any stats on how many Unicon users are using the M$ platform as opposed to open source OS's (linux,freebsd,netbsd,etc). If you want the language to survive, the stat you really want to co