Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 20th Feb 2002 18:45 UTC
A lot of people have trouble understanding what .NET really is and what its goals are. Mostly because Microsoft has done a good job of confusing everybody using terms that are not self-explanatory or with terms that mean more that one thing. This editorial will present my thoughts on .NET, what it really is, what its motivations and goals are, and why it is the next "big thing." Should we embrace it or fear it? Both, I daresay.
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Man if you were burnt by MS the amount of times and the ways some of us have, you wouldn't even consider the possibility of Bill Gates asking you the time without an ulterior motive.
You just go ahead and develop in the more .NET friendly C# and have fun porting those apps to the platforms MS choses not to support, then see what happens to competition in the PDA and console markets when MS is control of what new platforms has access to all the software in the world..
It drives me nuts to hear people praising MS after all the harm they've done.