As a developer, my interests are in maximizing the value of my skills. I want my expertise to be applicable across multiple platforms; I want projects which I

As a developer, my interests are in maximizing the value of my skills. I want my expertise to be applicable across multiple platforms; I want projects which I develop to be portable across multiple platforms; I wish to minimize the amount of pointless superficial interface information I must learn as platforms rise and fall and instead focus on deepening my comprehension of computer science fundamentals. I hate that the platform vendors cannot ally themselves with those interests and must instead always attempt to lock developers in, damaging us economically and wasting our time and human potential. When a vendor suffers because their lock-in attempts falter, I can't help but feel schadenfreude. Now, if only their competition were consistently better...