Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 04, 2005 11:15 PM
Why is it that so many people in the Open Source community autumatically think working with Microsoft is bad? How about this, if your software works with Windows, your potential client base is a lot bigger? Nothing wrong with reaching more potential clients is there?
While I agree that Microsoft's past history of adapt, extend and destroy has not been good for OS, they haven't been very effective in destroying the really good technologies. They lost in court against Sun (Java) and haven't managed to kill off Mozilla entirely either. In fact, Mozilla is making a come back, so the fear that Microsoft will kill Python is probably a bit paranoid.
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Re: Microsoft and Python
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 04, 2005 11:15 PMWhile I agree that Microsoft's past history of adapt, extend and destroy has not been good for OS, they haven't been very effective in destroying the really good technologies. They lost in court against Sun (Java) and haven't managed to kill off Mozilla entirely either. In fact, Mozilla is making a come back, so the fear that Microsoft will kill Python is probably a bit paranoid.
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