Friday, 18 August 2000

.NET and software rental

Listening to:

Mozart, concerto for two pianos in E flat major, K365. The final movement of this concerto featured in the film Amadeus. (Just thought you might like to know that.)

Microsoft's .NET thingy is given so much hype in its official “white paper” that it’s near impossible to tell what it’s about. (There’s more information at the MSDN site.) In any case, it seems that one of things made easier in this brave new world will be software rental. And maybe this would be a better model, even if it was Microsoft’s doing. Philip Greenspun makes quite a convincing case anyway.

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