And another .NET article

[Jim Herrmann]

Note that this is not for .nyet development, this is for use of .My Nyet 
Services for people who want to use the MS server farm.  I read some of the 
Slashdot comments today about this.  There was a bunch of confusion about it. 
 The development tools are free, or regular price.  The services cost you 
though.  I wish they would charge a half a million dollars for each app. That 
way very few apps would use it.  The way they have it though, lots of 
proprietary software companies will have to pay another microsoft tax, but 
they will jump at it just because they follow the leader, just like sheep, or 
perhaps cows.  This tax will have to be paid every year, like it or not.  
Open source will probably have the ximian thing to use, but then MS will keep 
changing the requirements so that it never gets done.  I don't know, it's all 
just vapor ware and speculation at this point.  I wouldn't get my knickers in 
a bunch over this story.  It's from a different planet than the one the 
people on this list are on, or moving to.

Peace,
Jim

On Wednesday 24 October 2001 10:35 pm, zscoundrel wrote:
> This was rich!  I couldn't get more than 3 or 4 paragraphs into the
> aritcle I was laughing so hard!  They want a thousand bucks plus $250.00
> per application?????  They gotta be kidding!
>
> I guess my wife better start learning Linux and Star Office pretty darn
> quick!!  I just about chocked having to pay $200 for an office suite -
> no way will I support her 'doze box when .nyet becomes mandatory price
> of keeping up with the Joneses!
>
> I see an 'fdisk' event in the near future!
>
> Dale Beams wrote:
> > http://update.internetweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eEqP0B3u2G0V30TgA0AD
> >
> >