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On the other hand, I'd say alienating the developer community would prevent hackers from making things for new(er) Microsoft platforms like Windows Phone or Azu
by rmc 13y ago
On the other hand, I'd say alienating the developer community would prevent hackers from making things for new(er) Microsoft platforms like Windows Phone or Azure. Things that might have been the killer app for that platform.
Hasn't that already happened though? This is Microsoft with 20 years of bad press in hacker-circles we're talking about!
- mattmanser 13y agoNo, 20 years of froth-spitting, slathering linux crazies not understanding why reasonable people and developers choose the incredibly easy to use Windows over the ever shifting quick sand of linux. That's obviously a bit of a joke but it is in fact all a matter of perspective. Most people think the world is populated with clones of them and their friends/colleagues. It's not. Until 5 years ago Macs and Linux weren't even a vaguely viable option for selling software.
- rmc 13y ago5 years ago the web was a viable option. (Just look at Google & Facebook) pg's "Microsoft is dead": http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html