Haha! yeah tell me about it ;) Its Open Source all the way around these here parts!!
I'm really excited about the posibility of a WordPress vs Drupal debate. I might draft up a separate post to see whether or not we could get enough interested parties to pull it off.... On Feb 2, 12:56 pm, Dave Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/02/11 11:35, GetShopped wrote: > > > I thought you were moving to .net? > > <wee rant>Bite your tongue, Dan. Them's "pistols at dawn"-type > aspersions yer castin'. > > .Net is .Nasty for anyone who values freedom. Open source on top of a > proprietary platform is an ugly kludge, suitable only for those who > don't know better (and don't know Linux, which I would hope is an ever > shrinking minority of people on this list). > > Building apps on top of expensive and generally inferior technologies is > a very unfortunate decision to make on behalf of your customers (even if > they suggest it). Even though some of MS' technology is technically ok, > it's still a big liability - Silverlight deprecation anyone? > > If you write apps that depend on proprietary technologies, the whims of > their corporate masters (and, in MS' case, increasing desperation - > they're losing money hand over fist in every area except their Windows > and Office monopolies) to sell or deprecate non-strategic development > technologies could render your entire software platform a dead-end > orphan overnight, at any time. It's happened before (any MS VB or Cold > Fusion or Borland Delphi devs out there?). Don't let it happen to you. > An open source development language and FULL STACK is what you (and your > customers) want. </wee rant> > > Dave > > -- > Dave Lane, Egressive Ltd [email protected] m +64212298147 p > +6439633733http://egressive.com Free/OpenSourceSoftware: because to share is > human > Only use Open Standards - w3.org, Drupal powers communities - drupal.org > Effusion Grouphttp://effusiongroup.comSoftware Patents kill innovation -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
