On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 16:12:25 UTC, RalphBa wrote:
Of course it had to be losing money..how else would they have
convinced everyone it need to be aquired? That's long term Now
which company has done more for software development, besides
Microsoft?
GNU... oh sorry, you are speaking about companies... Sun... ok,
open and free software isn't really compatible with making
money. Best argument why to leave GitHub if you do such kind of
software.
Mostly closed source proprietary, sure, but still...(and
that's changed a lot now!)
Well, changed... you really belive them? And mind, open source
doesn't imply open and free software, only vice versa. How
young are you to not knowing M$ better?
I'm sure MS Linux will come out soon .. someone has to compete
with Ubuntu.
Still M$, still noone essential who will use it... and if only
to make a point.
And sure, MS stopped a lot of other developers/apps from
competing ...but hey, that's business...what else can we
expect (from any for-profit, shareholder company).
Up there... I wrote something of incompatible, so no not
expecting anything else. Thats exactly the point.
C# - Windows Forms - Database integration - anyone? I still
program with them ;-)
If I tried doing any one of my 'windows forms apps' on any
open source solution/platform, the productivity loss alone
would be immense.
Did you ever have the need to write something efficient? .NET
is a sandbox for children and UX people. And yes I know what
I'm speaking about... not only up to 4.0 what by the way should
lack support and security fixes in the meantime, but as XP user
you are common to.
I hate cloud! Dump the tablet and mobile, and bring back the
pc ( running Windows XP 64 bit, or course - where admin means
admin!).
Let me try to correct you, you hate centralised clouds. There
is another concept of cloud even it isn't that far yet. But I'm
pretty sure it will once solve the dilamma that stuff can be
infiltrated/bought in one big chunk. Or the one that it has to
be financed by one Organisation.
BR Ralph
Nothing wrong with the cloud. The past few companies Ive worked
for (small) have used AWS and Azure. Not managing servers and
services make it easy for small companies. For instance we use
Beanstalk, ECS, Cloudfront, RDS, ElasticCache, Lambda, SQS, and
SNS at my current job. With only 5 employees this would be a
pain to deal with on own and the cost is about 1000/month for us.
Sure we could have our own servers in a datacenter but then that
just brings even more headache and the cost would be more than
AWS. I agree that large companies serving vast amounts of the
internet is not a good thing but the times we live in.
