Comments on: One sane voice in the crowd http://www.alexonlinux.com/one-sane-voice-in-the-crowd Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Alexander Sandler http://www.alexonlinux.com/one-sane-voice-in-the-crowd/comment-page-1#comment-22891 Alexander Sandler Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:55:23 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1500#comment-22891 <blockquote><a href='#comment-22879' rel="nofollow">Originally Posted By Clayton</a><br/><a href='#comment-22877' rel="nofollow">@Alexander Sandler</a> - True, but the main difference being that with QT, any small issues you can (at least attempt to, lol) fix yourself since the full source is released, however with .NET, the best you can do it submit the bug to Microsoft, and sit back and wait months for them to release a patch. </blockquote> Oh well. This is something I cannot argue with :-) This is indeed one strong point in favor of FOSS.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('22891','Alexander Sandler'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('22891','Alexander Sandler','<blockquote><a href=\'#comment-22879\' rel=\"nofollow\">Originally Posted By Clayton<\/a><br\/><a href=\'#comment-22877\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Alexander Sandler<\/a> - \r\nTrue, but the main difference being that with QT, any small issues you can (at least attempt to, lol) fix yourself since the full source is released, however with .NET, the best you can do it submit the bug to Microsoft, and sit back and wait months for them to release a patch. <\/blockquote>\r\n\r\nOh well. This is something I cannot argue with :-) This is indeed one strong point in favor of FOSS.'); return false;">Quote</a></div>

Originally Posted By Clayton
@Alexander Sandler –
True, but the main difference being that with QT, any small issues you can (at least attempt to, lol) fix yourself since the full source is released, however with .NET, the best you can do it submit the bug to Microsoft, and sit back and wait months for them to release a patch.

Oh well. This is something I cannot argue with :-) This is indeed one strong point in favor of FOSS.

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]]> By: Clayton http://www.alexonlinux.com/one-sane-voice-in-the-crowd/comment-page-1#comment-22879 Clayton Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:31:44 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1500#comment-22879 <a href='#comment-22877' rel="nofollow">@Alexander Sandler</a> - True, but the main difference being that with QT, any small issues you can (at least attempt to, lol) fix yourself since the full source is released, however with .NET, the best you can do it submit the bug to Microsoft, and sit back and wait months for them to release a patch. I would never go out of my way to bash Microsoft on the public level, and I deal a fair amount of non-public bashing to linux as well :)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('22879','Clayton'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('22879','Clayton','<a href=\'#comment-22877\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Alexander Sandler<\/a> - \r\nTrue, but the main difference being that with QT, any small issues you can (at least attempt to, lol) fix yourself since the full source is released, however with .NET, the best you can do it submit the bug to Microsoft, and sit back and wait months for them to release a patch. \r\n\r\nI would never go out of my way to bash Microsoft on the public level, and I deal a fair amount of non-public bashing to linux as well :)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Alexander Sandler –
True, but the main difference being that with QT, any small issues you can (at least attempt to, lol) fix yourself since the full source is released, however with .NET, the best you can do it submit the bug to Microsoft, and sit back and wait months for them to release a patch.

I would never go out of my way to bash Microsoft on the public level, and I deal a fair amount of non-public bashing to linux as well :)

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]]> By: Alexander Sandler http://www.alexonlinux.com/one-sane-voice-in-the-crowd/comment-page-1#comment-22877 Alexander Sandler Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:03:03 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1500#comment-22877 <a href='#comment-22858' rel="nofollow">@Clayton</a> I can understand this. Bitching M$ just to have a good laugh. But thinking about it objectively, this is doesn't make any sense at all. Is QT, for example, less bug prone then .NET? I don't think so.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('22877','Alexander Sandler'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('22877','Alexander Sandler','<a href=\'#comment-22858\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Clayton<\/a>\r\nI can understand this. Bitching M$ just to have a good laugh. But thinking about it objectively, this is doesn\'t make any sense at all. Is QT, for example, less bug prone then .NET? I don\'t think so.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Clayton
I can understand this. Bitching M$ just to have a good laugh. But thinking about it objectively, this is doesn’t make any sense at all. Is QT, for example, less bug prone then .NET? I don’t think so.
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]]> By: Clayton http://www.alexonlinux.com/one-sane-voice-in-the-crowd/comment-page-1#comment-22858 Clayton Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:32:06 +0000 http://www.alexonlinux.com/?p=1500#comment-22858 I regularly have to deal with software development in a Windows environment using Microsoft tools, and our corporate network is VERY Microsoft-centric, so I do a bit of bitching (mostly to myself and some friends) about Microsoft's non-open standards, and how developing in .NET for example can be a headache since the tools are almost as prone to breaking as your buggy code ;)<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('22858','Clayton'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('22858','Clayton','I regularly have to deal with software development in a Windows environment using Microsoft tools, and our corporate network is VERY Microsoft-centric, so I do a bit of bitching (mostly to myself and some friends) about Microsoft\'s non-open standards, and how developing in .NET for example can be a headache since the tools are almost as prone to breaking as your buggy code ;)'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I regularly have to deal with software development in a Windows environment using Microsoft tools, and our corporate network is VERY Microsoft-centric, so I do a bit of bitching (mostly to myself and some friends) about Microsoft’s non-open standards, and how developing in .NET for example can be a headache since the tools are almost as prone to breaking as your buggy code ;)
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