Monday, August 5, 2002

I'm Microsoft-neutral, but I don't like things like this at all: New XP/2K EULA. Microsoft is trying to slip by a EULA requirement in W2K SP3 and WXP SP1 that grants them administrative priviledges on your machine. I'm pro-Microsoft, but this kind of underhanded crap has got to stop somewhere. I don't care what the stated reason is. There's no way I'm going to let them do that to my boxes. And don't even get me started on Palladium. How much is too much? Personally, I'm getting there. Quickly. Link   Discuss [The .NET Guy] 1:25:07 PM     Here's a great example of giving back....not only do we get great tools like Huevos and NetNewsWire, but we also get re-usable components like this and a similar RSS Class. Open Source OPML Class for Cocoa. The OPML class that I developed for NetNewsWire (so that it could import subscriptions files) is now available under the BSD license. The included test app shows not just how to parse OPML but also how to hook it up to an NSOutlineView. Here’s a screen shot. [ranchero.com] 8:22:23 AM

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