re: Dead Trees vs. Bits

Rolf Viehmann — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:27:20 GMT

First of all: I really like your web log, it's just extremely interesting (especially the stuff about programing languages and the rationales behind the details). I also don't have anything against Microsoft or any of the Microsoft products (for example, I like the whole .NET approach quite much).

But one thing crossed my mind when reading this entry: You give exactly the reasons why Open Source is as cool as is is (at least for the developers). For example the creative control (everyone can start an open source project), or the business model (if you abide the laws, nobody can shut down your project). Even the thing about the friend overseas that wants to have something you have fits quite nicely (we (in europe) have broadband, too, so it's entirely practical to transfer a few hundrets of megabytes over the internet to someone, somewhere).

Just my 2 cents ...

RE: Dead Trees vs. Bits

RJ — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:04:00 GMT

"Speaking of books, people keep telling me and Peter and Raymond that we should write books based on our blogs." It's a conspiracy you know, we keep asking so we've got something decent to read, we're fed up with the local Borders being chock full of Java books ....

RE: Dead Trees vs. Bits

Peter Torr — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:43:00 GMT

Thankyou for making an honest person out of me. :-)