Month: May 2007

Please have a look at this

Click to access protocollo_microsoft.pdf

If you don’t know Italian isn’t a problem since it isn’t even written in proper Italian.

Summary for this trash: Microsoft got a cofinancing in order to plant 3 new centers in certain cities of Italy (that also happen to be the ones in which you have active open source centers for innovations), the government grants some founds and Microsoft adds 1M$ in 3 years(in software licenses and other non-cash stuff like that). Note Microsoft receives at least 1000 times from the Italian public administration every year (the yearly cost of Microsoft licenses).

Why IBM, Canonical or even Novel won’t start making such deals?

Everybody and your dog knows that microsoft tried to rerelease ActiveX with a cool name and trying to play again the .NET card over it to make it look less stale. Miguel obviously got another dose of crack^W^W^W of optimism and tried to find something good in something that should be shot on start, well, restart.

He said that Silverlight will be something useful and 1/5 sites will use it in few years. Well I have lots of fun with standard tecnologies: javascript, SVG, HTML5 and so on…

Now, if you want richer applications there is something that binds everything together it’s called XUL, works EVERYWHERE (hi, minimo) it’s quite documented, mature, has an opensource implementation and a compact runtime (xulrunner).

and Oh, btw it has already more than the 1/10 of the market share and is steadly growing…

Now if we got a standard multimedia framework (maybe based on RTP, RTSP, codecs like Dirac, snow or vorbis) in the mix I think we are completely done, isn’t it?