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
>
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> +6439633733http://egressive.com Free/OpenSourceSoftware: because to share is 
> human
> Only use Open Standards - w3.org, Drupal powers communities - drupal.org
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