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This is why we don't see more Microsoft developers coming to open source. There are quite a few out there who are interested in it, but their skillset leads the
by icey 17y ago
This is why we don't see more Microsoft developers coming to open source. There are quite a few out there who are interested in it, but their skillset leads them to Mono. Why would anyone want to help out in a way that would get them treated as a pariah?
I appreciate all the things that rms has done, but he's gone off his rocker; why people still pay any attention to him is baffling to me (other than the tabloid qualities of paying attention to him, I suppose).
- nathanwdavis 17y agoThere are quite a few out there who are interested in it, but their skillset leads them to Mono Mono is an open source-licensed project, so if a MS developer starts working in Mono, aren't they effectively working with Open source??
- icey 17y agoYes, and then they hear about how Mono is a terrible abomination according to rms. That's the crux of my point.
- thwarted 17y agoThis is why we don't see more open source developers developers migrating to develop on Windows. They are curious but then they hear how open source is a terrible abomination according to Microsoft. (Admittedly, not the exactly the same, in one case rms is attacking your new choice, and in the other Microsoft is attacking your old choice, but it doesn't make either side attractive to the other).
- icey 17y agoI don't think we've really heard much about Microsoft needing more developers though. Certainly not in the sense that open source needs more developers.