Apparently, Microsoft is the devil
Recently Matt over at Sitepoint blogged about cross-browser issues with Atlas http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/04/21/atlas-disappoints-in-cross-browser-support/.
The comments have turned into quite a little debate about the evils of Microsoft. It always amazes me how quick people are to attack Microsoft. Granted they’ve made mistakes, but it seems that people just love to blow things out or proportion. In many cases, I feel the urge to point this out to people, which usually results in an arguement. This causes many people to think that I’m all Microsoft. I feel that I’m actually fairly balanced in my work in PHP and ASP.NET.
Here are a few of the most common complaints that I love:
Microsoft is only trying to make money - Yup. That’s how corporations work. They could stop trying to make money, but then 50,000 people would be out of work. Guess what, the company you work for is trying to make more money. If they weren’t you’d probably be flipping burgers.
Microsoft is trying to destroy opensource - You’ve watched Anti-Trust one too many times. Microsoft is not trying to destroy opensource, in fact they started a Linux lab to provide tools to people working on Linux and provide the best free IDE available.
I know a lot of people at Microsoft and all they care about are shareholders - Everybody who says this can never seem to provide a name or even a division or product or job title. Granted Microsoft is a corporation (see #1), but they have great developer support, they’re actively working to improve both standards compliance and are providing new public databases for bugs to help improve their products.
Microsoft people never get involved with non-Microsoft communities - This is because the instant I point out that I’m a .NET developer, I feel like I have to defend every single statement I make. With the exception of .NET developer communities, it’s just about impossible to have a real conversation because the instant you show any support for Microsoft, you become the enemy.
Someday I hope to find fellow developers that believe that every language has it’s place.
3 Responses so far
April 26th, 2006
4:04 pm
If you still think that MS is looking out for you first, and its shareholders second, then you might want to read the following interview with Dave Stutz:
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/06/27/dotnet.html
I admire and appreciate your willingness to give MS the benefit of the doubt. I’m sure that they greatly appreciate people like you defending their right to innovate (even if it breaks compatibility, hinders collaboration, and abuses their OS/browser monopoly).
April 27th, 2006
12:57 pm
I read the article and it talks about providing some of the source code for the CLI for non-commercial use. I’m at work and I don’t have time to read the whole article if it’s not even relevant to your point, but at about half way through I hadn’t found a single thing he said that supports your point.
Also, check the date on that article. If you’ve got anything relevant and/or current let me know. Until then I’ll be using .NET just as much as PHP.
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