That's the thing – I don't understand why people will chain themselves to caring about all this when you acknowledge that “Microsoft themselves doesn't always l

That's the thing – I don't understand why people will chain themselves to caring about all this when you acknowledge that “Microsoft themselves doesn't always like the spirit of open source present on their own .NET team!” Does .NET have some breakthrough features or support that other languages don't have? Are job opportunities better than, say, Java? I'm not understanding the upside here of following the Microsoft version of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.