tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686308.post111506949906990171..comments2023-08-15T06:47:12.622-04:00Comments on Sand-box: macbeachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16570427618324025947noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6686308.post-1115084145906537582005-05-02T21:35:00.000-04:002005-05-02T21:35:00.000-04:00"I would think it desirable to sort out the fundam...<I>"I would think it desirable to sort out the fundamentals sooner rather than later."</I><BR/><BR/>Problem is that there are real users for Gnome out there now, and changing fundamentals means changing the APIs and irritating lots and lots of developers. For Havoc Pennington's take on this (and the potential for forking a development branch of Gnome), see his blog at http://log.ometer.com/2005-04.html<BR/><BR/><I>"I can't help but thinking that this Mono project is doomed to fail."</I><BR/><BR/>I don't know. There's lots of stuff being written for it (mainly over at Novell/Ximian, as you might expect). <BR/><BR/><I>"Any standard largely in the hands of Microsoft is going to be a target moved for their own convenience."</I><BR/><BR/>True enough, as you've seen historically in the SMB/CIFS implementations. Problem for Microsoft is twofold here though: they have a user base that is running old SMB/CIFS, so they can't muck up new standards all that much.<BR/><BR/>I think that .NET will have to settle down after a release or two, or Microsoft will risk alienating early adopters.<BR/><BR/>As for the worry that the legal hammer will come down on Miguel in the near future: I read PJ's response to the Register yesterday, where she explained "there is something called waiver and estoppel, and basically if you know about a breach (if it even was one) and do nothing about it for years, you are estopped (meaning blocked) from complaining later.<BR/><BR/>I think that Microsoft is screwed.<BR/><BR/><I>"Then he moves on to the next thing. Gnome, Evolution, Ximian, Mono"</I><BR/><BR/>You forgot Gnumeric!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com