On Wednesday, Dec 1, 2004, at 11:02 US/Central, Ed Howland wrote:
While nice projects in and of themselves, I think this is just some developers within MS that wanted to do these small projects in OSS and got their bosses to OK it. Now, MS can reap PR atta boys from it. But this is in no way an indication of policy change on their part.
MS reaping PR atta boys? I'd like to think it justifies using OpenSource to those who otherwise frown upon it. "Why not use OpenSource? Even Microsoft, the traditional ire of the OpenSource community, uses and develops using OpenSource."
BTW, FlexWiki is an Ok Wiki written in ASP.Net. An early version of it worked under Mono. However, the latest version doesn't compile because they are using some MS only classes in it. This sort of thing goes on a lot. You get OSS projects that are targeted at one platform (Windows) but that work in another (Mono/Linux) but then an upgrade occurs and little known platform specific features creap in. :(
That is indeed unfortunate. Admittedly, one of the weaknesses of Linux and OpenSource is the install base, no matter how good it is or how "free" it is. "Quantity has a quality all its own." If that's true, what can be done to increase the OpenSource install base?
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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