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The right spirit... for him. I do not share his view. I agree that it is not a "zero-sum game", however, Microsoft identifies Open Source as the "enemy" (add yo
by faragon 17y ago
The right spirit... for him. I do not share his view. I agree that it is not a "zero-sum game", however, Microsoft identifies Open Source as the "enemy" (add your favourite Ballmer's quote here).
I respect Miguel's opinion, but I will not follow his C#/Mono "vision", as I prefer vanilla C, or in case of needing higher abstraction, use Lisp, Perl, Python, or Bash.
- zppx 17y agoMicrosoft, Ballmer in fact, also sees iPods, iPhones, Google, Amazon AWS, IBM, Nintendo and Sony as enemies, and not only open source. If there are some people in the community that wants to see Linux as a platform that fits everything (mobile, server, embedded appliances, etc) what is wrong if a MS executive dreams of the same happening with his company's products? And by the way, bash sucks... zsh forever. Just kidding in this line.
- nailer 17y agoYes, but so many people are focused on being a better MS (say, in the desktop software space) they're forgetting the larger game (that desktop software is shrinking itself, meanwhile lacking an installable current-release version its default web browser).
- jf 17y agoI have yet to find someone at Microsoft that views Open Source as "the enemy".
- bootload 17y ago"... I have yet to find someone at Microsoft that views Open Source as 'the enemy'. ..." Maybe all the players have left MS now? But I remember Bill didn't like open source ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists James Allchin wasn't that keen ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Allchin#Controversies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Allchin#Controversies neither was Paul Maritz ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Maritz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Maritz and Vinod Valloppillil wrote the book ~ http://www.vinod.com/blog/NavLinks/FAQ.html http://www.vinod.com/blog/NavLinks/FAQ.html You can get a better view of these MS players reading through the Halloween documents at http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ None of that matters much as it once did. MS is spent as a force, at least in the eyes of developers. There are bigger problems. [0] [0] Eben Moglen, "Interview: Eben Moglen - Freedom vs. The Cloud Log" http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Eben-Moglen-Freedom-vs-the-Cloud-Log-955421.html http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Eben-Moglen-...