Michael Chaney wrote:
> Without knowing the specifics, I'm guessing
> that they wanted to kill off the InstallShield people (perhaps they
> refused a buyout) and Microsoft realized that a FLOSS project
> replicating their functionality was the best way to injure/kill them.
AS> It would really depend on how good this WiX is though... after all
AS> there are several pretty cool free / open source windows installer
AS> projects out there and they don't seem to have hurt InstallShield much.
Yeah, and exactly how many of those ship with Visual Studio? See the
difference?
So Microsoft switches a vital developer tool from a 3rd party
provider to one they own, and furthermore, releases it under
an open source license so that end-users can customize it to
their heart's content... and you're weeping for Installshield...?
I'm not privy to the terms of any deals between Microsoft and
InstallShield and have no idea if there was any breach of good faith,
but from a end-user's point of view, I can't see what's so bad about
this.
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