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Lots of .NET stories in the news today and yesterday; it's a total coincidence that Microsoft started a huge marketing push on Wednesday, including the occasional Doubleclick ad running on Slashdot. BrendanL79 writes: "Peter Wright at Salon.com contributes to public awareness of Microsoft's .NET with this exuberant piece. The praise borders on sycophancy ("Gutenberg ... Babbage ... now Gates") with no apparent tongue in his cheek. Comments?" Reader vw writes: "Active State has just released Visual Perl 1.2, Visual Python 1.2, and Visual XSLT 1.2 as plugins for Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET. Wonder how long it will take for a Mono hack." Numerous readers pointed to several stories about a buffer overflow problem in Visual Studio .NET which was supposed to be immune to buffer overflows - but it had passed Microsoft's stringent new security audit.
Who else thinks michael is going to get his ass kicked for pushing Taco's proposal down out of the top spot?
Why would anyone in their right mind want to buy into this Microsoft "philosophy" is beyond me. Oh wait, I get it, it's the almighty buck again.
What self-respecting perl hacker would touch this Microsoft contaminated version ?
What next ? Microsoft Java for
Just like Microsoft - rather than improve upon industry standards and embrace the hard work and advancements of other projects, they steal the good parts, muck them up in a proprietay format, then give it a stupid name and unleash it on the world as The Next Coming.
When are the majority of people going to tire of M$'s nonstop efforts to digitize our lives at the expense of our humanity? I envision a future where code monkeys are like steel workers and car plant workers during the early days of the industrial revolution, worked to death to build products they can't afford to use while at the same time making BANK for the higher-ups.
If I were a professional programmer, I'd start a completely non-M$ union, go national, and use the power of a union structure to develop world-class solutions competing directly with M$. Distribute source code through the chain where locals can make changes to highten relevance and usefullness in their market area. Offer low-cost custom built boxes running a GPL'd OS that meet the client's needs, not charge them outrageous fees for hardware they won't ever get full use of. Keep the profit where the work is, on the local level, with moderate dues to support the structure as a whole.
The only way to beat Microsoft is to code them out of relevance.