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["Chris Owens" <internetworkers_box AT reality-v2-dev.com>]

Regarding the C# standards, isn't it following a similar model to that
of Java and other products such as AppForge?  The published plan is to
allow for the Common Language Runtime (CLR) to be ported as necessary or
desired to other platforms.  This would allow code written in C# to run
on other platforms.  The JVM operates in a similar fashion does it not?


Chris Owens
chris.owens AT reality-v2.com
919.345.4339 mobile


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S Czeiszperger [mailto:czei AT webperformanceinc.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:59 PM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] Re: The list isn't blowing up yet?

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On Friday 07 September 2001 11:54 am, you wrote:
>       The key word here is "proprietary".  Most technical standards
like
> railroad gauges, 60 hz AC, and so forth are established by agreement
> among several players within a given industry and controlled by the
> government (NSI) or trade groups.  Most industry standards are
> established and managed openly.  Microsoft wants to establish
standards
> for a huge segment of our world and control them from behind closed
> doors.  Brutal, yes.
>

I've found that the open source movement has taken focus away from open 
standards, which is unfortunate. With open standards, it doesn't matter
if 
you have access to the source, since anyone can implement the standard,
and 
there's no question of ownership. Companies can cooperate with regards
to 
defining standards, and then compete on the quality of the
implementation.

Open source without open standards isn't quite as useful, as source
quite 
often isn't cross platform, and can be quite complex so the protocols,
file 
formats, etc, can be obfuscated.

The next big thing to look at in terms of standards is .NET. Microsoft
will 
make C# the language a standard of some sort, but in typical fashion is 
hiding the fact that most of the C# code won't run on non-Microsoft 
platforms. The reason is only the bare language itself will be a
standard, 
not the libraries, and the libraries will mostly be wrappers around
existing 
Windows APIs, which are proprietary. This way they can claim to support 
standards, while making sure that no one will either be able to
implement a 
competing product, or port the C# libraries to other platforms.

- -- 
Michael S Czeiszperger
czei AT webperformanceinc.com

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