Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:48:58 -0400
From: Gaetan INIMOD <[email protected]>

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON-EDITED AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH

INTRODUCTION

Let's imagine one instant that a manufacturing of electrical passes a contract of exclusive rights with a mark of laundry you buy a machine to wash " So-and-so " you use the WinSoap " gunpowder " inevitably One can imagine the reaction of the less than 50 year housewife easily

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As absurd as it can appear the Intel couple, Microsoft (Wintel) succeeded this stroke nearly the in data processing the global holdup to take the expression of Roberto Dicosmo [http://www.ens.fr/~dicosmo]

More that machines are himself data that are taken in hostage by formats owners on the flat shapes owners.

An IDEA of THE FREE DATA PROCESSING

LINUX

Long before the DOJ the most unlikely answer came henceforth from the clean with the famous LINUX This BONE puts in �uvre the POSIX norm That is grace has it that it has can be carried on the flat shapes different INTELS, SPARC, APPLE, etc. (and there in even more exotic others). The question of the material being solved and not having put of problems sect linuxienne " is faced himself in the battle of the " facilitation ". The some refusing it merely the other sustaining it like factor of conversion This battle is won definitely in favor of the " facilitation " but it sometimes goes in opposition to the stability and performances because " beautiful interface " only rhymes with " beautiful XML interface "

Under acronym hides a success and a failure. The failure is the one of the HTML which lost his/her/its quality of standard at the time of the war of browserses between Microsoft and Netscape, there we are therefore with a medium (Internet) without format standard of exchange. Enters 1997 and 1998 in a few less than two years the world wide web syndicate (http://www.w3.org w3c) (organism based in Swiss loaded to look after the evolution of the Internet in a space coherent and open management of norms: HTTP,FTP,HTML,XML.) formalizes from the SGML vielle norm of years 70 the language of beaconing expandable XML Without going in in the technical details this norm frees data of formats owners and encourage the intéropérabilité, she/it supports of the formal mechanisms of edition and electronic document publication The XANADU of Ted Nelson takes shape with XML (http://www.xanadu.net)

CORBA

Common Object Request Architecture. This norm is an opened standard that describes a software bus it has been specified by the OMG (Object Management Group http://www.omg.org) The principle has keep is that in a heterogeneous computer environment (language of development, network, material, applicatifs) the software bus is a technical solution to permit the communication between applications so a program writes in C++ on my machine will be able to converse (to collaborate) via the Internet with a JAVA program on a machine situated in ALASKA. This technology opens some astonishing economic perspectives thus it will be possible to rent some computer resources to the card (renting of coins program, renting of power of passing strip calculation). It is good to note that Microsoft doesn't participate has CORBA because they develop his/her/its own mechanism the ACTIVEX. LINUX,XML,CORBA: The Trinidad

This trinity answers it well according to me to perspectives opened by the TIC. They have the common point to apply for the universality of the access on the news to resources the recognition of the system heterogeneity the free access to sources and specifications. He/it remains a room for systems owners who will make the choice of this philosophy the. The BeOs of JL Gasset demonstrates it success of esteem like OS2 or real alternative BONE has you to judge some (for my part I judge it steady and elegant) Remains some exotic systems and can be more close to preoccupations of developing countries The QNX system (http://www.qnx.org) small unix time real exit of the technology embarked the core holds on a disk of 1.44 Mega (and it remains room) turns has minima on an old 386 with 8 mega of Ram and represent an alternative for the NC " clean to compute " (modem or card network) the majority of world linux tools is carried currently on this BONE one can prophesy without too much pain a beautiful future has this BONE coupled with devices of telephony by satellite (Transv.: Mail by satellite in farming zone of PVD)

FINDINGS

The senate of the French republic formulated a project of law aiming to generalize in the French administration the use of Internet and free software (forum + text of http://www.senat.fr/grp/rdse/page/forum/index.htm law). whereas to the USED the software patents exist. Europe resisted and the community all whole mobilized himself on the software patent question for this time that goes...

Let's imagine that one day one can patent the four operations of basis the least operation and 1 cent on my account in bank I let you imagine that that would relate the calculation of a profile of plane wing on a CRAY Vision of nightmare I push far certainly then the plug a little has the diagram

customer: Microsoft

server: Microsoft

given: Microsoft

protocol: Microsoft

medium: Microsoft

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