Linked by Andrew Youll on Sat 30th Jul 2005 14:42 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Peter Golde, one of the original designers of the C# language, has been working recently on Power Collections for .NET, which is now released. According to the web site Power Collections is a "Community Project to Develop the Best Public License Collection Classes for .NET"
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RE: Why all the negativity about .NET?
by pravda on Mon 1st Aug 2005 01:19
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Because .NET, Channel 9, and pretty much everything else Microsoft offers was stolen from other companies.
I think that if Microsoft actually invented something themselves, it would be received without the negativity.
Until that point, the bad karma of thievery will always give rise to opposition.
RE[2]: Why all the negativity about .NET?
by on Mon 1st Aug 2005 01:40
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Why all the negativity about .NET?
If you don't like it, don't use it. But don't try to convince me that it's dead.
I'm in the business for about 2.5 years, and I can tell you: .NET is far from dead. I make a living of it. And don't give me that crap that .NET can't be used on a server: it's great for both client and server. And with the new 2.0 version, they solved a lot of problems that existed with the 1.1 version.
I like .NET, and I like the .NET community. You can say anything about Microsoft, but I think they've improved a lot lately. They've become very open to developers, they listen to developers and improve their products, based on the feedback of developers.
Just look at 'Channel 9' ( http://channel9.msdn.com ). I've never seen a community site like Channel 9, sponsored and hosted by Microsoft. The videos and interviews you find there really show you how people work at Microsoft. A lot of Microsoft employees hang out at the Channel 9 forums. You can talk directly to those who have influence at Microsoft, who actually develop the products.
They even give reasons for certain decisions that Microsoft makes, that are controversial.
Is IBM that open? Is Sun that open? Is Apple that open?
I don't think so.