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Serious question for WIN advocates
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by www.unixsucks.com:
Oh, yes? Then what is this about - http://www.dotgnu.org
How come *NIX world is copying M$ now?
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That's the beauty of open source. It can do everything M$ can no matter how hard M$ tries to stop them from doing so by using closed protocols and APIs. No matter how stupid or Nazi like something is that M$ comes up with you will find a project in the open source world that will build compatibility with that product.
M$ has no interest in interoperability or compatibility. Now, just because the capability will be there doesn't mean everyone will use it. There are many open source people unhappy with the Ximian dude for doing the mono project, and for talking about building it into Gnome. But for those that wish to use it, it will be available for them. And have you actually read the front page of http://www.dotgnu.org/ which give many more good reasons for not using M$ or trust them?
[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
badkarma:
No, I don't need to buy it, however if I want to use most (all? didn't check them all) of the examples from the MSDN library (and I will need to learn it somehow should I ever want to (yeah, right ...)) I will see the following bit mentioned there:
quote:
Requirements
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET Professional or greater.
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Now I get paid pretty good for a 21 year old, but like hell that I'm buying MS VS.NET for the not too shabby price of: $1,079 US (and that's the professional edition without full DB support and some other missing features).
Excuse me, but that just sounds like outright extortion to me.....
www.unixsucks.com:
Where you read that requirement?
it's your third post when you are trying to talk about subject you have very little understanding about.
Here is quote from M$ site
Microsoft .NET Framework Software Development Kit
The Microsoft
voidmain:
It's sort of difficult to get since I have .microsoft.com blocked at my firewall. Nothing but viruses come from that domain.
badkarma:
I took the quote from a VB.NET example page for creating dynamic controls (from MSDN). A mundane programming example, why it requires VS.NET is beyond me.
you can find the page I am reffering to here
so yes ... you can download the .NET framework for free, however to fully learn it you will have to have VS.NET. Some of the examples work with the trial version, but most examples need the professional edition (or greater ... lol)
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