At 07:39 AM 8/10/2010, Ed Leafe wrote: >On Aug 10, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > > > I guess you could ask the guy in charge why the change in IRON for .NET. > > ... > "straight"? > > When has anyone still employed by Microsoft given "straight" > information? They say what they're told to say, or they get another job. > >-- Ed Leafe
I'm not clear on why there is so much fuss. Open source is a clear enemy to MS. MS knows it. Most of the intelligent computer professionals know it. <shrug> MS pretty much simply wants to trick as many developers as it can into using .Net (or whatever the MS "lock-in-of-the-day" happens to be). They won't expend one ounce of effort past the point where they think they got the max return. And I don't know why an MS-head would deny this fact - after all MS is in business to make money. Getting billions of dollars for doing nothing but shifting buttons around on screens, shuffling functions in libraries, etc, shows a fantastic profit margin. And, like wow, if some cash is needed, just roll out a "new operating system version" and issue a press release that older versions will soon not be supported. Ka-CHING! If you want to use open source languages, just go use them. It would be very, VERY, naive to think MS will be altruistic in supporting open source in any way. Side note: an interesting thing I've seen is with the Mono stuff. I've come to the conclusion that those guys are pretty much deluding themselves. Mono is in constant catch up to .Net and riddled with incompatibilities. And, to top it off, all it would take to destroy Mono at any given instant is just a slight wording change in MS's licensing or other legal mumbo-jumbo. I'm not sure when MS will pull the plug, but you can bet they will at some point. Oh well. As Ed said, SSDD. I just found it surprising that people actually thought MS had serious intentions with anything originating in the open source world. -Charlie _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
