I'm aware of that, which is partly why I keep making such suggestions. When companies such as IBM open some of their source and start growing, as has happened, and Microsoft doesn't for such a crucial interoperability thing - imagine its usefulness if it could be connected to an sshd -, and stays flat, various microsofties get tetchy and blog calls for various CxOs to get the chop.
I see it as basically a form of spectator sport - make them an offer they can and will refuse because it's the way they're wired, and then let them drip brine on those self-same wires ... and people remember the olive branch extended and rejected .... Wesley Parish Quoting Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wesley, > > No, PowerShell won't, imho, be ported to Linux or open sourced by > Microsoft even though it's probably possible to some extent under Mono. > It's a tool firstly to make *nix people happy looking after Windows > boxes, and secondly to bring some of the power of 'the trad unix way' > to > Windows admin. > > The Microsoft long-term plan hasn't changed, just the tactics > > - steve > <snip> "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
