Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-25 Thread Shaun O'Connor 

On 25/02/2016 09:28, Michael Schnell wrote:

On 02/24/2016 09:59 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:



Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?



Sarcasm: Delphi Language became C# 

-Michael



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I cannot resist chipping in here but i honestly cannot think of ONE 
thing thati mproved following a microsoft acquisition, 
truespace(acquired in 2008 or thereaboiuts) abandoned. no longer 
supported despite it being well regarded by many. oh and look what 
happenned to the "partnership" between Microsoft and Nokia!! MS has had( 
and probably still has a habit of) acquirng( or attempting to acquire) 
any company or entitiy that it sees as a potential threat, then grinds 
that company or entity to the ground.

end of rant. ;-)

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Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Schnell 

On 02/24/2016 09:59 PM, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:



Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?



Sarcasm: Delphi Language became C# 

-Michael



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Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Giuliano Colla 



Il 24/02/2016 22:49, Mattias Gaertner ha scritto:

Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?

This is quickly going off-topic.
If you want to answer this question please use fpc-other.

Or better alt.destroy.microsoft ;-)

Giuliano


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Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Mattias Gaertner 
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:59:06 -0500
Dmitry Boyarintsev  wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Anthony Walter  wrote:
> 
> > I expect their price to come down, maybe even into the free price range,
> > as a result of this acquisition.
> >
> 
> Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?

This is quickly going off-topic.
If you want to answer this question please use fpc-other.

Mattias

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Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Anthony Walter 
> Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?

Flight Simulator
Direct3D
Halo

All game related.
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Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Denis Kozlov 

On 24/02/2016 20:59, Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote:

Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?


This is bad news. Microsoft's top interest is likely to be in bundling 
Bing into Xamarin.


MonoDevelop might have to provide their own builds from now on.


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Re: [Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev 
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Anthony Walter  wrote:

> I expect their price to come down, maybe even into the free price range,
> as a result of this acquisition.
>

Skepticism: what software became better after acquisition by Microsoft?

thanks,
Dmitry
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[Lazarus] Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

2016-02-24 Thread Anthony Walter 
I think this is big news and of interest to our community since Xamarin
provides a cross platform IDE + Tookit. Also, of all the other (than
Delphi/Free Pascal) languages out there I feel C# is the next most
acceptable with proper PME/generics/other stuff.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/welcoming-the-xamarin-team-to-microsoft

I expect their price to come down, maybe even into the free price range, as
a result of this acquisition.
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