John Hebert wrote: >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? > > Of course not.. I'm incredulous at your wishing MS would collapse under your own weight when if that happened right now, you would have no job. I currently don't have ANY illusions whatsoever about what would happen to me if that happened.
>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? > > Sharing isn't bad. I shouldn't be forced to share my intellectual property however. If you choose to share, more power to you. I choose to share my "knowledge" as it were...even though no doubt people don't think I have any here ;) It's the "everyone must share" mindset of RMS that drives me batty. You are taking my POV and bringing it to the absolute extreme end of the spectrum. >John > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >General at brlug.net >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20051014/4c372a6f/attachment.htm
