After takin' a swig o' grog, Matt belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | Microsoft likes to see open source coming to windows,
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> I don't believe that last sentence is true at all.
>
> MS would rather the open-source apps be peculiar to Linux. That way
> there is little interest in them from developers other than Linux
> developers. Then Windows developers /stay/ Windows developers rather
> than cross-platform developers, and the development of open source apps
> receives far less effort. And there will be little interest in the apps
> from users other than Linux users. That way Windows users /stay/
> Windows users.
>
> IMO one of the worst mistakes MS ever made was to port Word to Macintosh.
Well, that move gave them a lot of leverage in betraying Apple, though.
> Cross-platform apps move users toward the less-used OS.
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History is curious stuff
You'd think by now we had enough
Yet the fact remains I fear
They make more of it every year.
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