I knew I'd get downvotes, but we are real people in a real community and feelings DO matter and have consequences which cannot simply be brushed aside, and those are my honest feelings on it, and I lived through it and saw it all (been a web dev, first frontend now backend, since '97). The last straw was when Microsoft was SO guilty that the judge couldn't help but be biased, which of course caused the antitrust case to get thrown out: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02198.html (note: I'm kind of against antitrust, but I am in favor of SOME punishment when a corporation is provably just being a dick, period).
I also love Ruby (I'm now trying to get into Elixir) so the IronRuby stuff resonates, I salute you.
> and 10 years of watching Microsoft blatantly steal from open-source and not give back
Oh you mean LDAP? ;) And whatever harm Outlook did to MIME or SMTP or... and not even going to mention IE
I also love Ruby (I'm now trying to get into Elixir) so the IronRuby stuff resonates, I salute you.
> and 10 years of watching Microsoft blatantly steal from open-source and not give back
Oh you mean LDAP? ;) And whatever harm Outlook did to MIME or SMTP or... and not even going to mention IE