[ale] best cross platform development evironment

[Jerald Sheets]

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On Nov 8, 2010, at 12:09 PM, James Sumners wrote:

>  They've just been about fallacies
> proven incorrect because some people can't get over the fact that MS
> created the easiest answer to the question.


How do you think I feel on this list when it comes to Apple solutions?  

I understand your position, and I'm in the same place on the Apple side.  I recognize my peril and choose to play there for the case of experience.  When it comes to my servers, I go Linux all the way.  I'm not as willing as some of us to become what is essentially communist in ideology, but as I tell my employers, "You're going to find out about me that I don't like to spend money.  Whenever possible, in each and every case, Free and Open is the way to go if business cases permit it.  It is the best solution for every situation I can imagine"

I think the overall point is, though, that you cannot trust a for-profit to "do the right thing" if push ever comes to shove.  Those products, by all appearances, may not be encumbered now, but they are also not GPL.  At some point in the future, Offending Company X can decide to take their ball and go home making this entire argument fallacious.

When everything in that block of code becomes an actual, verifiable (and able to stand up in court) LICENSE such as the GPL, then you trust that entity at your own peril.

#!/jerald
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