On 10/08/10 23:12, Stephen Russell wrote: > 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. >
Problem is when M$ wants to make money at *your* expense. Isn't it? It kinda goes against *your* best interests. I mean, every buck M$ makes is a buck less for *you* (plus all the bucks you spend "upgrading" to the new bs). > > 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. > ;-> > Until you are not allowed to use ruby with .Net any more. Then you'll start paying for your choices, you'll have to replace the .Net libraries in your ruby code or replace your ruby code around the .Net libraries (and both choices will cost you money). I say that makes no business sense. _______________________________________________ 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.
