.Mac

[Forrest Corbett]

I don't get it. Most people can't even tell me what .NET is. .NET 
messenger, fka MSN Messenger, doesn't even use ANY .NET technologies. 
When MS first released .NET no one could really figure out what it was, 
so they started using the name all over the place to get recognition. 
Now people are asking me "What's your .NET screenname?" or "Have you 
used .NET?"

.NET server (seed) is up and running for many on the MSDN... but most 
people I know have gone from all gaga to "everything has got to be .NET 
for it to work, and we're not gonna do that." I hear VS .NET is sweet 
compared to VS 6.

I'm gonna shut up now. I don't like knowing as much as I do about this 
stuff.

-Forrest


On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 02:58  PM, Michael Brewer wrote:

> What is everyone's opinion on .Mac? The new name for iTools. I'm 
> especially interested in OmniGroup's opinion on it as a developer.
>
> Personally, I think it is horrible that Apple is trying to ride the 
> dirty coattails of Microsoft's .Net. One of the key reasons I became a 
> Mac user was to get rid of Microsoft's increasingly hostile 
> technologies such as product (de)activation and .Net. I'd rather Apple 
> keep the name iTools or at least change it to something less vile.
>
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