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Open Invention Network buys a few of Microsoft’s patents
Sep 9th
Open Invention Network buys a few of Microsoft’s patents
Just noticed that the Open Invention Network has purchased several patents that once were part of Microsoft’s IP, now I have to wonder, what is the content of these patents? and how come they are so easily taken away by a pro Linux group? that by itself brings doubts about the intentions behind the sale of these patents..
Maybe I’m just paranoid, but i would not buy from my direct opponent, specially from one that is known to have used unethical tactics in the past to control the industry and get rid of the competition.
Another thing that occurs to me is, they are just trowing away what is not needed anymore, so the patents may have no real value these days and whoever decided to buy them, is just simply still focused on how things used to be 10 years ago and have just thrown a lot of money away in some useless patents that will do no good to anyone on the Linux side.
But who knows, without actually reviewing the patents, is hard to say.
Article at CNet: Pro-Linux group nabs Microsoft patents
Win32 and Visual C++ Express Edition
Sep 15th
Win32 and Visual C++ Express Edition
I’ve been working with the Win32 api for a very long time, even for my client’s apps i tend to use Win32, i don’t like MFC, i have made several applications with MFC and Windows Forms, but i still keep working with Win32 whenever i have a chance. In fact i usually work with STL instead of any other c++ library, why? well for a start, it is easier to port the code to another operating system, and second, i don’t like to bloat the app just because i don’t want to leave the comfort of the new “modern” APIs.
Yeah, i know that’s not the best API, or the coolest one, or anything fancy at all, but i like the speed and the small size i get with applications made using just Win32.
A few days ago i decided to try Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, and i realized that it only supports Win32 applications, and to my surprise, no resource editor, so how new programmers who are interested in learning to program C++ applications will do without the resource editor? is this version of Visual Studio for students and beginners? or for hard core programmers who can really understand the Win32 API inner workings as they have spent several years learning every function, message, parameter and structure supported by this api?
I’ve tried Visual C# 2008 Express, and of course this one does have the resource editor, you can add controls, forms, format and set properties all using visual controls, i guess Microsoft doesn’t want people to actually keep using C++ and instead they want them to go to C#.
Otherwise, i don’t see a reason to remove the resource editor from Visual C++.
Anyway, i have decided to keep the Express edition installed and implement some free apps using this compiler just because well, it is free, it seems fast enough, and i don’t care about the resource editor or any other stuff like that, i like to program like in the old days, if anything just to complicate my life and spend two hours building a user interface that i could get done in 10 minutes using the professional edition, or Visual C# Express.
Life goes on..
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