Posts by fishfork

Pirate Bay blocking row silenced in Norway

way to go Telenor Norway

way to go Telenor Norway! youre right! blocking access to internet sites amounts to the post office opening mail before determining if the letter is good to go. Props!!

Windows Phone 7: free tools, captive Marketplace

good first step. that's one in a row.

this is a good step on MS's part. esp if theyre switching platforms (new OS) for their upcoming Win Ph 7 ... which is beginning to look interesting to me. but its only a small first step in getting into the hearts of developers again -- who create apps and content, which helps drive the adoption of a platform. you want a developer to try your integrated development environment and flirt with making an app or two for your new phone? make the dev software free. not trial. not express. free. that way they dont have to get approval from their manager; dont have to go through any procurement process; dont even have to ask their wife. they can download and start in on a tutorial. and if MS's operating system were less expensive too, that would also help.

hate to bring up the "A" word here, but Apple has had it right for a long time charging $0 for is pretty impressive x-code development environment (included with every Mac sold or download for free) and how much is the iPhone software dev kit that integrates into the x-code dev environment? again, free. oh wait, but if you want access to pre-release beta software for their platforms, well that costs money but still only $99 bucks for an annual membership.

please, MS please stop being cheapskates and trying to get big dollars (visual studio 2010 is $549 for the _upgrade_ at Amazon). if you want me to develop for you youre going to have to at least do what others are doing to encourage adoption (see: x-code, netbeans, eclipse, all very good IDEs).

but again, some interesting first steps. and, seriously, kudos for giving it a try.