Plus you get exposed to radicals who honestly think it is OK to develop good software and just let people use it for free, which makes you more inclined to make decisions that avoid contributing to the Microsoft gravy train.
Isn't that what Microsoft itself did with Internet Explorer? They developed software that was better than the competition (Netscape) and they gave it away for free.

It is ironic that one of the federal government's complaints against Microsoft was that it gave IE away for free and thus prevented its competitor Netscape from charging for an inferior product. Apparently, Microsoft is always wrong. It is wrong if it gives its stuff away (IE) when others charge, and it is wrong if it charges for its stuff (Windows) when others give it away.

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: Microsoft vs. Perl and sloppy programming - Wildly OT by sierrathedog04
in thread Microsoft vs. Perl and sloppy programming - Wildly OT by Ovid

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