Archive 6. April 2010

IBM breaks OSS patent promise, targets mainframe emulator - was to be expected, but still a nasty story. IBM is IBM - and IBM is only its own friend. Large companies first look at their own wallet, then at others. And Hercules allows some things that so far only low-end mainframes have achieved. That's where the fun and the cuddly course end for IBM.

Perfection kills » What’s wrong with extending the DOM - because I keep discussing with colleagues why JQuery is better than Prototype: Prototype heavily uses the extension of prototypes, while JQuery hangs almost everything on its own JQuery object and is therefore much more cooperative in interaction with other JavaScript.