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Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET
Erebus writes "Jamie Cansdale released a free addin to Visual Studio back in 2004 to help developers build unit tests. His only problem was, he enable his addin for all versions of VS - including the Express addition which isn't suppose to support addins. After over a year of trying to talk with Microsoft and understand how and why he was in violation of their license agreement, during which they would never explain specifically which clause in the license was being violated, they sent the lawyers after him and pulled his MVP status. To top it all off, Jamie is actually a Java developer by day — his addin was originally developed just as a hobby project. A full account is available on his blog, including all email correspondence he had with Microsoft and the now 3 letters received from Microsoft lawyers. The lead product manager for Visual Studio Express has responded to Jamie's posts."
the, the borg. MAN! they. YES they are everywhere like monkeys in a tree the shit on your head from a branch. ESPECIALLY if you are open source java developer IN YOUR OWN time MAN! THE MAN will take a dump on you just like a monkey in a tree. AGAINST you will, and even if you have plug into the M$ YES M$$ visual studio (which as we all know is monkey droppings) and WITH JAVA on you will get sued to buggery and back. Even in your own time as a hobby. Damn you m$. THE BORG will take a dump, from a visual studio FOR FREE (as in freedom) open source developers BEWARE don't try to cuddle BILL GATES because he will fling his on EXCREMENT in yo' face. Mutha.
Hope that helps.
monk.e.boy
Open source, flash charts
Oh boy, the old "Translation: put whatever idiotic thing I want here" tactic. Good god, but you're boring.
See, I'm trying to help people like you who can't understand the motivation behind the message.
Do you think that because this guy knows how to write computer programs that he can't lie to you?
Perhaps you think that because he belongs to a MAJOR CORPORATION (ooh, shiny!) that he must be telling the truth?
Perhaps you are conveniently ignoring Microsoft's long history of shenanigans and their announcement/admission that Open Source and Free Software are collectively their biggest threat and thus their most important enemy? This, by the way, has come out many times. And in the Halloween documents it was conclusively revealed that they are not above using dirty tricks to accomplish their goals.
Your disingenuous interpretation of both my comment and the situation at hand are more childish than if I were to refer to you as a poopy-head in every other sentence of my comment. You, sir, are a hypocrite, and I am not impressed.
Nonetheless, I have responded to your comment anyway (far more than you deserve) lest someone else read it and think you have a point.
Believing what the minions of Microsoft have said to you after the approval of the legal department is nothing short of idiotic. I bet you believe their marketing literature, too.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
RTFA... "Additionally we have over 300 VSIP partners with over 1,000 legal Visual Studio extensions that cannot extend Express. It doesn't make business sense when our biggest and best partners are legally unable to extend Express, yet Jamie's company can."
He has a very valid point- If MS is going to restrict some developers they should restrict all. For some reason Slashdotters like to cry that MS has unfair advantages, but now they're crying that a particular developer isn't being allowed an unfair advantage. It can't be both ways...
You, sir, have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
In the age of Google and Wikipedia, there is absolutely no excuse for not making the minimal effort of checking the meaning of the terms that you use.
Turn your brain on and get a clue about what "copyright" is and isn't.
Until you learn how to use the grey matter between your ears properly, please don't
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