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  • #61
    Originally posted by Detructor View Post
    One reality check for this person, please.

    You do realize that C# has one of the most advanced memory management implementations available? If not *the* most advanced memory management? The only thing that could even come close to that is Java's memory management...and as far as I remember that was more of a 'it's not fucking up too much' situation.

    C/C++ don't have any memory management implementations. You've to do everything yourself, which usually leads to security holes.
    You know .. memory management != garbage collection.

    What C++ (not C) has over C#/Java/etc is reliant, automatic and deterministic memory- (even better, resource-) management. No shitty garbage collector can give you that.

    By the way, you can use a garbage collector with C++
    Last edited by fscan; 14 May 2014, 09:17 AM.

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View Post
      Point to me one multi-billion dollar tech company that hasn't acted in an unethical manner or have unethical practices, not even IBM can be said to have a completely clean record.
      Again you persist with the same fallacy. Just because everyone is guilty of some crime, doesn't mean we should treat people the same way for murder or littering.

      It's just as nice of speculation as your allegations against microsoft, fact is google was fingered by snowden as being a part of PRISM, you know that group of companies that the NSA basically outsourced it's online spying operations to.
      I never claimed google was innocent, so that's beside the point.

      That's nice and all but I can't really say they're acting all that different from the rest of the multi-billion dollar tech giants
      Some companies oppose software patents and support FOSS projects. MS does the exact opposite. MS is one of the most harmful parasites to ever have existed.

      Ah yes because CarrierIQ totally didn't happen,
      Not in my country, no. I don't buy phones with carrier subsidies anyway, around here most phones are purchased from stores without carrier subsidies, and we also have legislation that forbids carriers from preventing customers to switch carriers if they so wish.

      You might also be interested to know that EU directives not only explicitly allow rooting/jailbreaking of phones, but demand that manufacturers/sellers are not allowed to void the warranty of a phone for rooting/jailbreaking only.

      and this totally hasn't been done in practice since the early 2000s when the FBI used it to take down one of the mobs.
      FBI has no jurisdiction in my country.

      Also ESCHALON which effects all NATO nations totally didn't happen.
      I don't live in a NATO nation.

      Are you done?

      If you're using Gmail and friends
      I don't use Gmail.

      But at that point while they still have your phone as a bug,
      So tell me, how is NSA getting access to my phone to use it as a bug?

      Oh yes because public outlash will obviously get them to stop, or oh wait that's not how this ever works.
      Oh yes because sitting on your lazy ass saying "oh noes we're fucked, we might as well just give in and use microsoft" will obviously get them to stop, oh wait, that's not only not doing anything but actively increasing microsoft's profits, enabling them to fuck us over even more.

      The simple fact is without bloody revolution things aren't going to change, however we have a rogue government that can step on anyone who tries to resist which means that revolution is impossible and the system is well beyond the point where the changes required can be performed through the system.
      So you're just going to sit on your lazy ass, going on about how everything is hopeless and nothing can be done...

      So for all your nice words of shooting them down they were just that... words..
      We'll see about that if it comes to that.

      I can assure you that business interests had nothing to do with how this all started in the 1950s, it had everything to do with the crusade against communism, which eventually grew and took on a life of it's own because spies never actually operate for their country they operate for themselves as power entities, and all power entities seek to expand their power.
      You should better learn your own history. That's really all I have to say about that...

      That's nice but that really doesn't have anything to do with the business of spying on citizens, a lot of other tragedies of the system yes, but there's not really a reason as for why businesses would *want* the government spying on people,
      Oh yeah? Then why is microsoft so tightly in bed with NSA? Out of a sense of patriotic duty? Bullshit... information is business like any other. Just look at how facebook operates, it may be enlightening...

      Oh and also, obviously there isn't also any reason why businesses would *want* the government to wage pointless wars on the other side of the world, because the military-industrial-complex is obviously a fairy tale... and oh, businesses obviously never have any reason to *want* to lobby for more draconian legislation for "drugs", "piracy", "patents", "copyrights" etc. Oh no, corporations are all just benefactors who want to provide us with jobs and services and maybe, possibly make a tiny bit of money in the process... they would never do anything sinister or unethical at all.

      but as a social movement it hasn't impeded corporatism one bit, and using it for the social movement is kinda stupid.
      Oh, and you have some evidence for this I suppose? Again with the same fallacy, if it's not 100% perfect then obviously it's not doing anything... if we didn't have FOSS, corporatism would very likely be even more rampant in global economy right now. There would never have been a free and open internet, it would all have been controlled by corporations right from the start. The very foundations of the openness and freedom of the internet (which is still a thing, despite attempts to throttle it from many sides, despite all the privacy violations and patent threats) could not have ever existed without open standards and open software that allowed for the infrastructure to grow organically...

      Apple vs Franklin Computers along with Apple's various look and feel suits set the groundwork for most of the Intellectual Property laws about software in place today.
      Possibly, in the USA. Yet Apple was not the first one to apply for swpats nor even the first ones to use them in court.

      Intel... a company that drove all of the competitors in the x86 market out of business through patent suites other than the ones it was legally obligated to allow due to their contracts with IBM. Intel... a company that intentionally crippled performance of AMD processors when using their compiler. Intel... a company that has been convicted multiple times of abusing it's monopoly position and setting up collusion. Intel... A company that joined with Microsoft at the hip (yes that company you hate so much) to the point where the term Wintel became a thing. Oh oh but it's all okay because they develop an open source driver and support some FOSS projects, that makes everything better unless your name is Microsoft, in which case you opensourcing anything or even doing anything at all absolutely must have some dark conspiracy behind it.
      Not even getting to the whole wintel thing, obviously that was a thing once, they've since distanced themselves from microsoft considerably though.

      Regardless of the past, Intel CPU's and x86 is still the most open common hardware platform available for common use today.

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      • #63
        Originally posted by dee. View Post
        When you buy products from a company with unethical practices, you are directly financially supporting those unethical practices.
        This is generally a bad reason to choose products.

        Your judgement of what works for you is good. Your judgement of a giant corporation's ethics is probably beyond the scope of a traditional consumer to make a quality judgement.

        I object to Microsoft products for two reasons:

        - They aren't good. There are better alternatives. C# is a poor language. ASP.NET is a poor web framework. Microsoft Word is a horrible tool for creating documents. Visual Studio is a crusty IDE that appeals to this completely Microsoft wired mindset.
        - They pull you into this Microsoft ecosystem.

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        • #64
          Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View Post
          What part of C# being an ECMA standard, and the reference compiler being under Apache license and thus not only under a liberal open source license but with a total patent grant on the language itself do you not get?
          Luke is right on this. The ECMA standard should provide full protection from potential lawsuits. I don't think most developers are really concerned about that however.

          While C# is an ECMA Standard, and is protected from most litigation, it doesn't have the open community of Java. And there are simply better languages than either C#/Java for most tasks.

          Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View Post
          if you ask the developer community their feelings on PHP, other than some bizarre outliers they're almost universal in their agreement that PHP is a horrible mess, and mostly as a result of people taking it well beyond what it's okay to be used for.

          http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-...of-bad-design/
          Personally, I don't like PHP, but lots of people love it. This claim is completely ridiculous.

          For every programming language, there are a ton of people who hate it, and have valid gripes about it.

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          • #65
            Originally posted by DanLamb View Post
            This is generally a bad reason to choose products.

            Your judgement of what works for you is good. Your judgement of a giant corporation's ethics is probably beyond the scope of a traditional consumer to make a quality judgement.

            I object to Microsoft products for two reasons:

            - They aren't good. There are better alternatives. C# is a poor language. ASP.NET is a poor web framework. Microsoft Word is a horrible tool for creating documents. Visual Studio is a crusty IDE that appeals to this completely Microsoft wired mindset.
            - They pull you into this Microsoft ecosystem.
            Why do you consider C# a poor language, what are the alternatives and why do you consider them better than C#.

            I agree that ASP.NET is a poor web framework. ASP.NET MVC is a bit better but can be a bit inflexible for certain things.

            However, I wouldn't dismiss the ASP.NET vNext without looking giving it a try first. So far, it seems to be more lightweight than the predecessors, quite modular (somewhat like Symfony) and is overall a huge upgrade to the current version. I use ASP.NET MVC extensively for client work but would never use it for my personal projects. However, playing around with vNext, I'd choose it over all the current frameworks that I would consider for personal projects specially now that it should "just work" on Mono.

            I don't care much about people dismissing opensource software because it originated at Microsoft. Good for them. It will greatly increase my productivity and possibly my income. That's what I care about.

            Visual studio does appeal to me (along with Qt Creator, Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop, Android studio, KDevelop, Text editors like notepad++ or Gedit) yet I don't have a Microsoft wired mindset. I Have a mindset that says "Choose the best tool for the job, get it done and move on".
            Last edited by jayrulez; 14 May 2014, 12:59 PM.

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            • #66
              Originally posted by jayrulez View Post
              Why do you consider C# a poor language, what are the alternatives and why do you consider them better than C#.

              I agree that ASP.NET is a poor web framework. ASP.NET MVC is a bit better but can be a bit inflexible for certain things.

              However, I wouldn't dismiss the ASP.NET vNext without looking giving it a try first. So far, it seems to be more lightweight than the predecessors, quite modular (somewhat like Symfony) and is overall a huge upgrade to the current version. I use ASP.NET MVC extensively for client work but would never use it for my personal projects. However, playing around with vNext, I'd choose it over all the current frameworks that I would consider for personal projects specially now that it should "just work" on Mono.

              I don't care much about people dismissing opensource software because it originated at Microsoft. Good for them. It will greatly increase my productivity and possibly my income. That's what I care about.

              Visual studio does appeal to me (along with Qt Creator, Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop, Android studio, KDevelop, Text editors like notepad++ or Gedit) yet I don't have a Microsoft wired mindset. I Have a mindset that says "Choose the best tool for the job, get it done and move on".
              +1 .. although i have to say ASP.NET MVC is much better then ASP.NET (Web) .. haven't looked at vNext in detail yet.

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              • #67
                Originally posted by jayrulez View Post
                Why do you consider C# a poor language, what are the alternatives and why do you consider them better than C#.
                "better" is subjective to opinion and dependent on the task at hand.

                For general purpose system/server/app development, the higher level languages are "better" IMO: On .NET F# > C#. On the JVM, Scala > Java. Clojure is on both .NET and JVM and I would say it's better than Java/C#, but I don't know enough about it to compare against Scala/F#. For some tasks, Haskell is a better high level language. Definitely better than C#/Java type languages.

                For prototyping many math algorithms, and doing number crunching, Matlab/Octave are great tools. It's more the libraries than the language itself.

                For crunching tabular data, and doing plots, R is great. Again, more for the libraries and community than the language itself.

                Python is a great competitor to both R and Octave. Again, the language itself isn't terribly special, but the ecosystem of libraries is. I don't like Python for server development.

                Originally posted by jayrulez View Post
                I don't care much about people dismissing opensource software because it originated at Microsoft. Good for them. It will greatly increase my productivity and possibly my income. That's what I care about.
                I agree. Make your own judgments on what tools work best and use them. No one ever agrees on this stuff.

                Originally posted by jayrulez View Post
                Visual studio does appeal to me (along with Qt Creator, Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop, Android studio, KDevelop, Text editors like notepad++ or Gedit) yet I don't have a Microsoft wired mindset. I Have a mindset that says "Choose the best tool for the job, get it done and move on".
                Sure, everyone chooses what they feel is the best, and that decision is completely subjective and varies wildly between developers.

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View Post
                  Maybe you should increase your reading comprehension. IANAL but all that says in a nutshell is that only the patents that cover the work are given under the patent grant by anyone contributing to it, such that nobody can take an unrelated patent and use this as justification as capability to use it without paying royalties.
                  Excuse me, what are you talking about?

                  In any case, you should know about embrace, extend and extinguish. Microsoft could very well release this code, and in a future close C# again making a new version with added features and because Microsoft has you already tied with their technology most of people will probably upgrade to the new closed version which in the short term will be totally incompatible with older versions of C# while programs using C# would have changed progressively to the successive releases of the closed C#.
                  And GNU Linux will be f*ck*d up again.

                  Microsoft is not a company to trust. It's a company you have to avoid if you believe in free (libre) software.

                  As for C# being an ECMA standard that's not true. All C# must be an ECMA standard and free of patents but the reality is that the version released in .NET 4.0 is not a standard and is not covered by any open license, patent grant, "community promise", or other agreement. Anything they've added since 2008 (and possibly earlier) is not in the ECMA standard, and may or may not require patent licenses to use.

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by Filiprino View Post
                    Excuse me, what are you talking about?
                    The part you put in bold, is a limitation on what patents are granted. Which is to say only the ones that would be infringed upon by you using, modifying, distributing or creating a derivative work off of the software, and if you happen to have patents relevant to the technology and write code that would be infringing then you're adding your patents to the pool. However if some of your patents wouldn't be infringed upon by someone doing one of those 4 things (Use, Modification, Distribution, and Creation of Derivative Works) then those patents are not covered by the license.

                    Originally posted by Filiprino View Post
                    In any case, you should know about embrace, extend and extinguish. Microsoft could very well release this code, and in a future close C# again making a new version with added features and because Microsoft has you already tied with their technology most of people will probably upgrade to the new closed version which in the short term will be totally incompatible with older versions of C# while programs using C# would have changed progressively to the successive releases of the closed C#.
                    And GNU Linux will be f*ck*d up again.
                    So what you want me to believe is that they're going to embrace, extend, and extinguish their own software and that somehow all that .NET is is a plan to harm linux.

                    Further you want me to believe that after all the effort they took in opening .NET up that they're going to close it back down again.

                    You also want me to believe that after having reached what is essentially a stability point they're going to totally rewrite the language.

                    Also even if they did close it we're still in a significantly better spot than we were before they set up the .NET foundation because Mono now has .NET's unit test suite and the official C# and VB compilers, but we'd just be back to where we were before Microsoft opensourced things.

                    Originally posted by Filiprino View Post
                    Microsoft is not a company to trust. It's a company you have to avoid if you believe in free (libre) software.
                    Yes, let's just ignore that their developer and tools division has been moving towards being more and more open since 2008

                    Originally posted by Filiprino View Post
                    As for C# being an ECMA standard that's not true. All C# must be an ECMA standard and free of patents but the reality is that the version released in .NET 4.0 is not a standard and is not covered by any open license, patent grant, "community promise", or other agreement. Anything they've added since 2008 (and possibly earlier) is not in the ECMA standard, and may or may not require patent licenses to use.
                    Then what's this? http://roslyn.codeplex.com/ Please do explain what this is if not the official Microsoft C# and VB compilers under the Apache 2.0 license

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      Again you persist with the same fallacy. Just because everyone is guilty of some crime, doesn't mean we should treat people the same way for murder or littering.
                      Except this isn't the difference between murder and littering, it's the difference between someone murdering 100 people, and another murdering 105. That extra person or 5 doesn't count for much when the individual is already guilty of mass murder.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      I never claimed google was innocent, so that's beside the point.
                      You claimed that Google was the victim here, only giving up the information it was forced to give, whereas Microsoft is this big bad asshole who is intentionally going out of their way to give the NSA all of your information, and were pretending that even if Microsoft does give out all of the information that you allege that they're the only ones who do so.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      Some companies oppose software patents and support FOSS projects. MS does the exact opposite. MS is one of the most harmful parasites to ever have existed.
                      Which multi-billion dollar tech company opposes software patents? Also MS does support various FOSS projects you know like the one being reported on in this article.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      Not in my country, no. I don't buy phones with carrier subsidies anyway, around here most phones are purchased from stores without carrier subsidies, and we also have legislation that forbids carriers from preventing customers to switch carriers if they so wish.

                      You might also be interested to know that EU directives not only explicitly allow rooting/jailbreaking of phones, but demand that manufacturers/sellers are not allowed to void the warranty of a phone for rooting/jailbreaking only.

                      FBI has no jurisdiction in my country.

                      I don't live in a NATO nation.
                      If this is all the case WHY pray tell do you care so much about the NSA? hm? Your own local spy agencies should be much more worrisome to you. Or do you consider the NSA to be the MS of spy agencies?

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      Oh yes because sitting on your lazy ass saying "oh noes we're fucked, we might as well just give in and use microsoft" will obviously get them to stop, oh wait, that's not only not doing anything but actively increasing microsoft's profits, enabling them to fuck us over even more.

                      So you're just going to sit on your lazy ass, going on about how everything is hopeless and nothing can be done...
                      Because Microsoft is obviously the source of all these problems, Or oh wait... No it isn't.

                      Also it's not about laziness, It's about being realistic and learning from the past. It's a fact that whenever there's been outcry the government hasn't shut down these projects and instead has continued marching on with them, and it's not going to matter how loud the outcry is because the government can operate with impunity, even to the point of killing it's own citizens as long as it brands them 'terrorists'.

                      Furthermore there is no instance of individuals armed with civilian hardware standing up to a modern military, and even the famous Barret loses effectiveness after 1 mile, on top of that taking a master sniper to actually make the shot, which means that the drones are untouchable with civillian equipment while they can drop hellfire missles and blow away any who resist.

                      Hell even going back to the 1700s the only reason the American Revolution actually succeeded was because we convinced the french to help us, and that was when things were on more equal footing.

                      The simple fact is that short of the military itself taking things into it's own hands the only thing the civilian populace can hope to achieve in rebellion is their own demise.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      We'll see about that if it comes to that.
                      Unless you've got access to a vehicle mounted or hard emplacement SAM, no you won't. Even the Javellins only reach 15,000 feet less than 1/3 the required distance.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      You should better learn your own history. That's really all I have to say about that...
                      I know it far better than you apparently.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      Oh yeah? Then why is microsoft so tightly in bed with NSA? Out of a sense of patriotic duty? Bullshit... information is business like any other. Just look at how facebook operates, it may be enlightening...
                      Facebook is a datamining company just the same as Google is, so of course they have an interest in selling information. However if Microsoft is as deep in bed with the NSA as you claim, which is dubious at best the reason would be either A). The government said "Do it Or Else..." or B). They wrote them a check under the table. However that does not mean that these businesses wanted the NSA to spy, and lets keep in mind that the beginning of the framework for all of this spying started in the 1950s (as far as public record goes, it's possible that surveillance started even before then) well before Microsoft and friends came into play with ESCHALON. The fact is spying on the public isn't a new business, and the Baby Boomers and "Greatest Generation" are at fault for not nipping it in the bud, before it was too late.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      Oh and also, obviously there isn't also any reason why businesses would *want* the government to wage pointless wars on the other side of the world, because the military-industrial-complex is obviously a fairy tale... and oh, businesses obviously never have any reason to *want* to lobby for more draconian legislation for "drugs", "piracy", "patents", "copyrights" etc. Oh no, corporations are all just benefactors who want to provide us with jobs and services and maybe, possibly make a tiny bit of money in the process... they would never do anything sinister or unethical at all.
                      Obviously all businesses are totally evil and they all want us to wage wars and sell everyone's information away. Oh wait.. No The fact is business as a general whole doesn't want these things, business as a specific sub category such as natural resources or military equipment do want wars, however Jo Tech Company is at best neutral about it and probably doesn't want it to go on.

                      What you're basically claiming here is that microsoft wants the NSA to be spying on people and is the cause for them doing so which is quite frankly bullshit, because this has been going on since the 1950s.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      Oh, and you have some evidence for this I suppose? Again with the same fallacy, if it's not 100% perfect then obviously it's not doing anything... if we didn't have FOSS, corporatism would very likely be even more rampant in global economy right now. There would never have been a free and open internet, it would all have been controlled by corporations right from the start. The very foundations of the openness and freedom of the internet (which is still a thing, despite attempts to throttle it from many sides, despite all the privacy violations and patent threats) could not have ever existed without open standards and open software that allowed for the infrastructure to grow organically...
                      Are you daft I just listed a half dozen entities that are the embodiment of corporatism utilizing FOSS software, further you're the individual making extraordinary claims that the social movement (as opposed to the pragmatic technical benefits of OSS) is responsible for seriously imparing corporatism so you need to provide proof that this is the case.

                      Standards and OSS software are simply a pragmatic thing that exist outside of the auspices of the social movement, the social movement doesn't own them, and we had standards committees like ISO and open source (albeit unlicensed) software long before the FSF was a twinkle in Stallman's eye.

                      Originally posted by dee. View Post
                      Not even getting to the whole wintel thing, obviously that was a thing once, they've since distanced themselves from microsoft considerably though.

                      Regardless of the past, Intel CPU's and x86 is still the most open common hardware platform available for common use today.
                      So despite Intel having acted as an abusive monopolist and having been fined for it in the past few years, it's okay to go with them over AMD, because Intel has open drivers (as does AMD). But obviously it's not okay to use .NET despite it being open source because it's a Microsoft technology.

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