Re: Paranoia about .NET (still): Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community

["Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com>]

"Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:

> Well no doubt it satisfies some need to imagine that Microsoft is
> plotting and scheming against Ada, but I am afraid it is absurd.

I don't think that should be read as the intent of my remarks.

Microsoft _is_ plotting and scheming against (at least some) anything(s)
that make(s) application programming OS independent (and the court
transcripts and judgements exist to prove that) and thereby free people
to make an OS choice based on quality instead of market share.

Whether Microsoft even knows Ada exists is sort of equally irrelevant as
whether the steamroller operator knows the earthworm on the pavement
ahead of him exists.

If the goal is to flatten all obstacles to worldwide domination of a
single dappy operating system, the incidental kills will probably be
numerous, just as when the shrimp seine kills tenfold as many pounds of
fish as it catches pounds of shrimp, and the dead fish are simply thrown
back overboard.

xanthian.



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