No Respect for Windows Open Source

man_of_mr_e writes "Shaun Walker, one of the founding developers of the DotNetNuke Portal/CMS has written an interesting piece about Open Source software on the Windows platform. "It's hard being an open source project on the Microsoft platform. Because no matter how hard you try to exemplify true open source ideals, you will not get any respect from the non-Microsoft community." He also says "There are Open Source zealots who believe that unless an application is part of a stack which includes 100% Open Source services and components, that it can not claim to be Open Source. [...] But does this "stack" argument actually make any sense?""

Comments

problems...

[smash]

One problem is that open source on Windows faces the problem of no one having compiler software installed.

Also, the whole point of open source is to not be bound by proprietry technology - why write for Win32, ASP, etc when the future of your application is at the whim of Microsoft in terms of changes to APIs, deliberate crippling of your app (if it competes in a market MS wants for themselves), fighting to get bugs fixed, etc?

I guess it comes down to this: Why bother going to the trouble of writing an "open" app when you're still bound to a proprietry O/S?

You're free to do so, but don't expect everyone else to jump on the bandwagon...

smash.