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Re: DRM one of reasons for Blu-Ray win

On 2008-02-21, Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:14:02 -0600,
>  Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2008-02-21, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> * Tom Shelton peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> On 2008-02-21, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> ____/ Tom Shelton on Thursday 21 February 2008 08:19 : \____
>>>>>
>>>>>> "mono contamination" - because it really is attracting some interest
>>>>>> in the .NET community.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the Linux community also -- and not in a good way.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://newsforge.com/feed/127462
>>>>>
>>>>> This was viewed about 6000 times for a reason. Without /. effect or
>>>>> anything...  in fact, Paul and Mark of Fedora and Ubuntu were
>>>>> informed of this problem as well.
>>>>
>>>> I respect your oppinion on this issue, but I believe you are
>>>> misguided .  Do you really want to loose the interest of some 6
>>>> million odd developers (last i saw a figure, could be more or less
>>>> now)?
>>>
>>> Are you saying that 6 million developers will try to leverage .NET on
>>> Linux?
>>>
>>
>> No - I really doubt that will happen, but that is the potential market
>> that could be won over :)
>>
>
>
>
> You think that there are 6million .net developers? 

Hard to say... I was looking it up, and that number was for old visual
basic developers.  I'm not sure how many of those have made the
transition to .net.  But, I'm fairly confident that the number is
definately in the millions.

-- 
Tom Shelton

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