Bloomberg has opened its API, providing a Software Development Kit (SDK) so developers can import Bloomberg’s financial market data into any application. This is cool. It shows the idea of openness in IT is mainstream. The short-sighted thinking that one must charge money for everything is giving way to providing a lot for free in order to generate/support a larger core business. M$ has been doing that for 20 years to lock-in users. FLOSS has been doing that even longer. It works.
It was only a few years ago one could not visit many web sites with client computers having certain browsers or certain operating systems. Now anything goes. There is a lot less room/tolerance for arbitrary restrictions/monopoly these days. It’s all good. Anyone appreciating openness will use FLOSS for their IT. I recommend Debian GNU/Linux because it gives me maximum control of my systems with a minimum of effort using open standards.
Lolz I’m clever.
“The light snow and high temperatures we have had this winter make such sighting quite likely in the next few years.”
Just 30 minutes ago I saw something I thought I’d never see in early February, a flock of geese flying north.
Where I live that wouldn’t happen until sometime in March.
If a deer took a dump right in front of me, I would see that as a sign that deer were feeding nearby. The light snow and high temperatures we have had this winter make such sighting quite likely in the next few years. Normally winter kills a lot of deer because they cannot feed in deep snow.
If a deer took a dump in front of you, you’d see that, too, as a sign of support for Linsucks.