.NET is not a viable option as it's legal status makes it's cross-platform nature very tenuous.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">You know I'm no newbie to the list. In fact, it's the constant use of<br>
these names on this list that has made form my opinion. That is,<br>
anyone who has to denigrate a company with a cutesy name is merely<br>
opposing whatever suggestion/topic/etc. because of that company. They<br>
don't bother to consider the facts, only their held opinion.<br>
<br>
The fact is, I don't care for MS either. But that wasn't the question.<br>
I answered the question and it was renounced, not by the questioner,<br>
but by those who have to be snarky about MS whenever they get the<br>
chance.<br>
<br>
This isn't about embracing anyone or anything. I'm just tired of this<br>
bullshit infesting simple threads for the sake of doing so. Notice<br>
that none of the replies about whether or not .Net is a viable option<br>
have been about anything worthwhile. They've just been about fallacies<br>
proven incorrect because some people can't get over the fact that MS<br>
created the easiest answer to the question.<br>
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On Monday, November 8, 2010, Jerald Sheets <<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com">questy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I choose to ignore the opinions of people who feel the need to make up<br>
>> cutesy names for things/people they don't like.<br>
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> You haven't been around here very long, have you? That happens MULTIPLE times a day around here. Many of us have been referring to:<br>
><br>
> M$<br>
> Microsquash<br>
> Microsquish<br>
> Microshaft<br>
> Winders<br>
> Winblows<br>
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> for years. In fact, it is that very distaste for that very OS that many of us are here. Sure, some of the newer folks may have gone "features" recently, but when many of us got into this whole Linux thing, it was to escape Microsquawk.<br>
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> Don't come on a Linux list and expect wholehearted embrace of the very company that turned many of us to Linux in the first place.<br>
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> Lighten up.<br>
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