On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Charlie Coleman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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! ----------------- Finally someone else gets it. As a company M$ wants to make money. How about the rest of you? Awe shucks. I keep doing the work and it doesn't return money, I'll keep it going because someone might shed a tear. boooohoooooo. With respect to moving buttons well that is all part of design factor. You have to always stay pretty don't you? hahahahahaha You crack me up sometimes. >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. ------------------------------ I see M$ devs like myself referencing ruby more and more. It is never IRON just ruby. There is no lock in to what we do. We choose to use .net because is it clearly a great IDE and product. I know your are more interested in the OS abuse. No biggie. We all pick our battles. ;-> > 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. ---------------------- Just curious why people want to run .net code? > 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. -------------------------- Me as well. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ 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.
