On 10/13/05, Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote: > And you say that as a .Net programmer~!?!?!?!? I say that as a paid programmer; I go where the $ is. Are you suggesting that I should support Microsoft for some other reason than for technological merit?
Sure, .NET is nice; huge library, Intellisense, etc., but dang, the dev environment is a bloated beast compared to the elegance of Ruby on Rails, for example. And Vista requires 4GB+ of disk space. Sheesh! How much more proof do you need that Microsoft is anchored to the desktop? Kudos to Google for outsmarting Microsoft in the web services area. Google's APIs don't require me to use a specific platform, btw. Let Microsoft compete just like any other IT company or organization. If a bunch of unwashed hackers and geeks give Microsoft nightmares because they choose to share the fruit of their efforts in order to get back more than they gave, then Microsoft is doing something wrong. Finally, I'd like to point out that the difference between you sharing your knowledge on this mailing list and open source geeks sharing source code is merely syntactical. If you really believed that sharing is bad, then shouldn't you shut up? John
