Re: SO and all that

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> 	From their website:
>      * Dot-Com Development Model: Community-based development with
>        open-standard file formats, APIs, protocols, and the Java(TM)
>        platform; source code available (in the near future)
>        via Sun Community Source Licensing.
> 
>        Sorry about the dot-com bit, but it is on the website... groan...

Well, they do *seem* to have the world bang to rights when it comes to
dot-comming things! Interesting, though, to see that they include Java in
this dotcomdevmod thing of theirs. Source code to Java? Even under the
SCSL, seems unlikely, but who knows..  I wish they would submit it for
standardisation though. There's so much cool stuff coming out for Java
(Quicktime for Java, Real-time Java, etc.) it seems a shame to be locked
into the dotcom way of doing things..

> 	Apparently, the idea is called SO-portal (or star portal) if I'm
> not too mistaken, but it'd basically be a version of SO in Java, so that
> you can launch it off your fave browser. How they will accomplish this,
> when even in a decent PC with linux and a fair amount of memory it's
> sluggish at best... Just imagine the extra burden of bandwidth and all
> that (all that meaning Java).

To me, it seems similar to running SO over a remote X link. (shudders).
Brrr. No thanks. I don't understand this fascination with running things
over browsers: the interface of the web is really, really, horrible. The
only thing you gain is not having to install the software, which for some
users is a huge bonus, but I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of man to
design a system to do this without having to dot-com it :)

> 	Right, it's decided, I'm gonna implement \TeX on java, together
> with XEmacs and AucTex, and become rich and famous X-)

Or a laughing stock ;))))))

Cheers,

Alex.

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