Linked by David Adams on Fri 12th Jun 2009 14:55 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
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2005-07-06
What are you even talking about??
The open source community routinely goes out of its way to accommodate Windows. Fire up XP and marvel at how Ruby, Python, Perl, Java, and almost any other language runs great on Windows.
Face it, the OSS community has long been extending its hand to Windows-based developers. OSS has nothing to gain, though, by attracting those developers who say "I'll use Linux (and open source) only if I can bring my Windows with me." A volunteer-run community doesn't need to waste its resources begging for unwilling users.