Just a quick posting:
What kinda madness would convince people to base Open Source projects on proprietary technology, particularly when the technology belongs to a company best-known for riping off other people's technologies?
How much pain do people self-inflict because they fail to learn lessons from history?
Apropos for this: "if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas".
Maybe, but consider Mono, it's an open source runtime for those open source projects.
ReplyDeleteMono mitigates some of the madness, but how long can they match pace with the hord from Redmond?
ReplyDeleteHistorically, once Microsoft feels their position is entrenched, they'll take out the competition. For Mono that will probably be by bashing it with patent litigation. Boom! Game over, change platform or lose all of your work...
Microsoft has never failed to impress. Their slogan should be "why innovate when you can dominate" :-)
But hey, maybe this time they'll play fair?
Paul.