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Red Hat Sends RHN Satellite for a Spacewalk Linux developer

Red Hat Sends RHN Satellite for a Spacewalk
Linux developer Red Hat yesterday said it will open the source code of its Network Satellite Server, which powers the Red Hat Network system management platform. Dubbed Project Spacewalk, the software will be licensed under the GPL 2. Spacewalk performs system inventory, software installations and updates, can manage and deploy configuration files and can kickstart systems. The software also can monitor systems, manage virtual guests and distribute custom packages by managed group. Spacewalk works with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris as well as Fedora, CentOS, Scientific Linux and…

Java EE Gets a Code Recorder
It s like TiVo for Java EE apps. At least, that s what Replay Solutions says about ReplayDirector for Java EE, which began shipping today. According to claims, it s unlike other software playback/record products because it virtualizes the execution environment and records not only code, but also program inputs, database transactions and all other server interactions. No changes to source code are required, the company says, and on playback, everything executes as it did during the original execution, recreating precisely any bugs, faults or issues, simplifying root-cause analysis. The…

Blog moved to WordPress and new domain…
I’ve moved my blog to my own domain and onto a WordPress engine, CS + SPAM was driving me nuts! Catchup posts: Subversion Global Ignore List Design Patterns in C# & Java : The Singleton. Back /home/ again! Like Christmas in July, but in June - WINE 1.0 and Firefox 3.0 Released! Flickr Gallery fo…
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Another way of looking at this

Jamie A comments to an article on Channel Register:

Here’s a slightly less technical way of looking at the issue:

Microsoft essentially have 2 editions of a program. The first edition speaks English (User Interface) to the user, but in behind can speak French (COM) to other components.

The second edition also speaks English and French, but can also speak Russian (VSIP - Visual Studio Integration Programme).

Microsoft intends that your components speak Russian in order to extend Visual Studio. Their VSIP license agreement also states that you can only try to speak Russian to the second edition of the software. Attempting to speak Russian to the first edition is not allowed (even if it does speak the language).

Rather than try and speak Russian, Jamie has been using French. He has asked Visual Studio if it talks a certain dialect (COM interface), and it has said “oui”. So he uses that dialect to talk to Visual Studio in order to do what he needs.

The main problem from Microsoft’s point of view is that they didn’t intend for anyone to use that dialect of French in order to talk to Visual Studio. They only expected Russian to be used. However, there’s nothing that explicitly states this. Microsoft even has public notes on the French dialect.

Therefore, Jamie thinks he’s in the right because Microsoft have not said that speaking French is forbidden. Microsoft sees it the other way. And the way things are going, it looks like the decision is going to come from a judge or jury.

There will be some French lessons in a follow up post.

about .net framework
hai, please give explanation about .net framework…? thanks.