Posted by: Anonymous
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on August 04, 2008 09:38 PM
Indeed. To quote Ballmer (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/09/ballmer_questions_google_redhat_and_social_networks/): "I would love to see all open source innovation happen on top of Windows."
It is not that MS don't like/want to see open source. It is you not using *their* stack and development tools that they don't like. Mono/Moonlight keep you on the Microsoft stack, because they are ultimately using MS-based technologies. Microsoft wants new developers to learn C#/.NET as this means that there are less of the new generation that know/understand C/C++ and who can thus work on GNU/Linux-based open source projects.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 79.77.125.14] on August 04, 2008 09:38 PMIt is not that MS don't like/want to see open source. It is you not using *their* stack and development tools that they don't like. Mono/Moonlight keep you on the Microsoft stack, because they are ultimately using MS-based technologies. Microsoft wants new developers to learn C#/.NET as this means that there are less of the new generation that know/understand C/C++ and who can thus work on GNU/Linux-based open source projects.
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