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Those of us using FxCop or Visual Studio's code analysis are well used to seeing the plaintive plea to strong name our assemblies. Strong names provide versioning and verification as well as allowing assemblies to be placed into the global assembly cache. They are generally a good thing. But there's a problem. Like any type of code or message signing they require a keyset and that keyset should be kept secret. What happens in open source projects or in corporate environments? Ideally the strong naming should become part of the build process; but that requires the key files to be...
I'm late to the game here (darned time zones), Simone, Scott and Phil have already pointed out that Subtext has been nominated for two community awards; Most Collaborative Project and Best Project for Communications. We're one of two .NET based projects in the running (the other being vmukti, a .NET project which has corporate backing; subtext is just for the love of it). Is the nomination nice? Hell yea. Does it prove anything? Probably not. The categories indicate how much of a popularity contest it is; how would users know which if Subtext, Azureus, XOOPS, Zimbra or ADempiere most values...
Oh dear; gnu is at it again. This is the perfect example of how not to be an open source advocate; promoting a free audio format by suggesting to users that they .... download an entirely new media player. iTunes users won't give up iTunes just for a codec. WMP users won't give up WMP just for a codec. And in fact there are ways to get Ogg into those players (xiph, the keeps of Ogg have official iTunes support and link from their Windows page to a WMP plugin); but what do GNU do? Push their agenda further, ignoring...