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What the fuck is .net
dot.this:
What is .NET?
Well, it's another one of those remarkable innovations from the wonderful folks at Microsoft. Having seen their success with "vaporware", they have decided to extend the concept. ("Vaporware" is where MS announces that they will release software, but never do, but it still scares away developers, allowing MS to keep its monopoly.)
Thus .NET is a vapor-concept, intended to scare potential competitors away from anything to do with networking, internet, and distributed clients.
MS has to keep the specifics to a minimum, because the more vague it is, the more threatening it is. Once competitors know the specifics of .NET, they can proceed with initiatives that they feel are not threatened by it.
Of course, MS is also vague about .NET because it doesn't exist, as I've already explained.
dot.this:
As the site says, .NET ShellServer is "a joke, like Windows RG was".
That's not a MS site. Actually, I don't know what those people are about. I'm not going to download the software to find out.
Calum:
if you have a version of DOS to run it on you should, it's very funny!
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by dot.this:
What is .NET?
Well, it's another one of those remarkable innovations from the wonderful folks at Microsoft. Having seen their success with "vaporware", they have decided to extend the concept. ("Vaporware" is where MS announces that they will release software, but never do, but it still scares away developers, allowing MS to keep its monopoly.)
Thus .NET is a vapor-concept, intended to scare potential competitors away from anything to do with networking, internet, and distributed clients.
MS has to keep the specifics to a minimum, because the more vague it is, the more threatening it is. Once competitors know the specifics of .NET, they can proceed with initiatives that they feel are not threatened by it.
Of course, MS is also vague about .NET because it doesn't exist, as I've already explained.
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point taken but obviously some people are not as scared as they should be.
xyle_one:
so, dotnet means we will live in a microsoft world? where the world is run on windows, and all music is from windows media player, and all graphics are done in microsoftPaint, and our lives are at the mercy of KingGates. whereas dotGNU means we live a free world, where we are all "connected", and can use any software we want??
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