Re: [DotGNU]Palladium

[Timothy Rue]

On 08-Aug-02 03:57:56 Boris Kolar <address@hidden> wrote:

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 BK> (it's a bit off topic here, address@hidden is more
 BK> appropriate)

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 BK> ----- Original Message -----
 BK> From: "Christian Axelsson" <address@hidden>
 BK> To: <address@hidden>
 BK> Sent: 8. August 2002 6:36
 BK> Subject: [DotGNU]Palladium

[snip - see thread on the developers list] Being cross posted to bizplan...

Given the dotgnu opposition to MS efforts to control the internet with .net

Some of you may appriciate this link (note it was posted late and probably
won't get any moderation points applied)

Linux Sales Down, But... (Every equasion has two statements)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=37558&cid=4032212

I'm sure there are a few dotgnu selling points in there or to be inspired
by.

The business plan solution direction I wrote about will work, but it's
clear that given the response (and lack of - as I went to a larger
audience)... it's clear the key is of providing the means of enabling the
closing of the divide between the developer and consumer (in negative
connotations terms - the divide between the Elite and the Freeloaders).

Part of which can be done in dotGNU (the enabling of a closing of the
divide) by making consistant and easy to use APIs for applications and
components intended for use on the net. So much so that it woud be easy
for a typical user (non-developer - It's amazing how "user" means
different things to different groups of people) of dotgnu applications to
sew/glue together online components to suite their interest.

i.e. A manufacture of goods knows who his suppliers and potential suppliers
are, but having the ability to glue together product and price components
from these different suppliers in an interface that is also of the users
design, would enable the manufacture to easily do price/product
comparisons, if not just looking to see if anyone carries a specific
product. While also perhaps placing a multi-supplier order in a manner
that is like doing it as if it a single task.

Enabling both a need for dotGNU componet developers to be hired to create
company specific components for others outside to connect to, as well as
allowing the many more (customer base of company) to make use of that
component without the need to hire a DotGNU componet developer. Increasing
the value of hiring a dotGNU component developer to do company specific
components. (Components are only as valuable as they are freely accessible
to a customer base to make use of.)

Putting things together, from simple to complex, is what it's all about,
and everybody does put things together. The more difficult doing so is
made to be on computers, the greater and longer the divide will be.

"Made" is the key word here, as it's really what it all comes down to,
whether tying a shoe is made out to be more difficult then it needs to be
or simplified to the point of eliminating the shoe lace. Somewhere on the
internet there is a description of tying a shoe lace that is so complex
sounding that even some people with multipul degrees can't follow it....

It's a choice...... I leave up to you.

Compete with MS by their rules and game board and know they will always
win... Or change the rules.

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Timothy Rue
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