Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 13, 2003 03:29 AM
Just wanted to share another theory on what the story with DotNET might be.
Microsoft WANT people to develop<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET platforms for other OS's. The whole point of moving away from windows onto a<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET platform is to make MS a platform-independant company, without actually declaring windows obsolete.
If MS invests most of its resources in dotnet on windows while windows is still a viable platform, then they can build the brand well. If linux developers help them out with the whole cross-platform part, then they get free development resources.
Finally, all MS has to do is use their remaining resources to develop and unfairly market something which embraces and extends DotNET to create a dominant MS platform. This new dominant platform will be uniquely theirs by virtue of being illegal to compete with (due to patents, etc). Most importantly, it will be dominant regardless of the underlying (supposed) winner of the OS war, Linux.
DotNET does not exist to compete in the OS war; it exists to *bypass it completely*, and win anyway. If the visionary developers who won the OS war (ie, linux developers) develop DotNET too, that only serves to give MS a seal of approval.
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DotNET and the OS War
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 13, 2003 03:29 AMMicrosoft WANT people to develop<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET platforms for other OS's. The whole point of moving away from windows onto a<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET platform is to make MS a platform-independant company, without actually declaring windows obsolete.
If MS invests most of its resources in dotnet on windows while windows is still a viable platform, then they can build the brand well. If linux developers help them out with the whole cross-platform part, then they get free development resources.
Finally, all MS has to do is use their remaining resources to develop and unfairly market something which embraces and extends DotNET to create a dominant MS platform. This new dominant platform will be uniquely theirs by virtue of being illegal to compete with (due to patents, etc). Most importantly, it will be dominant regardless of the underlying (supposed) winner of the OS war, Linux.
DotNET does not exist to compete in the OS war; it exists to *bypass it completely*, and win anyway. If the visionary developers who won the OS war (ie, linux developers) develop DotNET too, that only serves to give MS a seal of approval.
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