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By Mike Gunderloy
Monday, May 19, 2003OK, so it's a tiny bit above freezing out there, but what the heck is the deal with this wind? I want to plant tomatoes, not bundle myself up to avoid hypothermia. Oh well, on the Internet no one can hear you shiver.
- So, Microsoft is licensing Unix from SCO. There's precious little information in the press release, but we know from past releases that SCO is doing bargain-basement deals here. I also note that what Microsoft actually bought was "a patent and source code licenses". One wonders whether it was just the patent they really cared about (but then surely in Microsoft's own arsenal of ridiculous patents there would have been something they could just swap instead?) The other possibilities, of course, are that Microsoft has decided that this was the cheapest way to avoid getting sued themselves (after all, they own some Unix-based products too), or that it's an underhanded way to inject a few million bucks into the coffers of the company that is trying hardest to make Linux look like something invented by crooks and plagiarists.
- J# Browser Control - Technology preview release of a new shim designed to let you take Java applet source code and run it inside of the .NET Framework instead. Microsoft continues to put effort into making it easy for Java devs to move to .NET -- I wonder whether anyone is biting?
- Squeak - Free Smalltalk-80 implementation with lots of graphics and other goodies. Available for everything from Windows to Linux to Acorn to WinCE. Some day I need to set aside a month or so to play with Smalltalk, I think.
- Chris Brumme talks about the CLR managed memory model. This is the sort of low-level detail that I am very happy not to have to worry about when I'm writing .NET applications, but it's fascinating to read.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming topics.