Microsoft actually listens (so hopefully they will change the It Just Works slogan as well) to customers. There was a big rage when the new VS.NET 2005 and accompanying MSDN subscriptions where announced, since the pricing was outrageously different and higher. Things have changed. A little bit, but it changed. Read it in Rick‘s weblog.
Software patents are bad. Most developers know that, but money-smelling-egos seem to make more noise. So…how about patenting a “mapping architecture for arbitrary data models“, or loosely interpreted “OR mapping”, since that’s a big hype at the moment. I think this sucks. We need to stop this. No software-patents!
We should protect ideas, but not like this. Patents are there to make money (not in the least by the patent-registrators) and not to protect ideas.
The local dateformat now shows: 20-05-2005. Am I a geek?