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Sun pragmatic about open-source software (News.com)Sun pragmatic about open-source software (News.com)Posted Aug 6, 2003 17:54 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)Parent article: Sun pragmatic about open-source software (News.com) Ironically, open-sourcing Java would be a big step towards out-shipping MS Windows on the desktop....
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Sun pragmatic about open-source software (News.com) Posted Aug 6, 2003 19:26 UTC (Wed) by fx (guest, #12077) [Link] OpenOffice is open source. It's not outshipping MS Office yet, is it?
Sun pragmatic about open-source software (News.com) Posted Aug 6, 2003 21:32 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Actually, if we compare the number of new installs of OpenOffice and number of the licenses for Microsoft Office bought in the same period of time, the numbers may be similar.
Ironically Posted Aug 6, 2003 19:43 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] That's not what "ironically" means.Also, not true. What difference would it make?
Ironically Posted Aug 6, 2003 21:07 UTC (Wed) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] According to American Heritage (4th Ed.) irony is (2a) "Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs".We might expect a result to follow from a prerequisite, but in this case, the stated prerequisite (more desktops) would follow from the stated result (open sourcing java). This reversal is, in fact, ironic. It only doesn't fit the top definition of irony, of course, wherein words are used to express a meaning different from or opposite to their literal meaning. But you certainly knew that. I am amused that the word "irony", whose primary definition is the use of words to express something different from what they literally mean, is used more often than other words to express something different from what it literally means. Of course, I suppose it might be expected.
Ironically Posted Aug 6, 2003 22:13 UTC (Wed) by jonth (subscriber, #4008) [Link] Now there's a turn-up for the books: an American publication with a definition for irony! And we always thought they didn't know what irony was... ;-)J
Ironically Posted Aug 7, 2003 18:19 UTC (Thu) by jdthood (guest, #4157) [Link] > an American publication with a definition for irony!Ironic, eh?
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