open sourcing it doesn't magically make it cross-platform.

It will be years before it comes close to being usefully cross-platform, at best.

Wake me up when SQL Server comes with an MP3 player built in.

Turing not Touring

Really?

You do realize that break is a goto and is being used is the same way as a goto and you don't have to clean up on success?

I year or two ago I looked at one of their public reports

DVD's by mail brings in more revenue and has a higher profit margin than streaming. Like 800% more.

If you notice how little they charge for streaming and the size of all their content-rights contracts it isn't surprising.

That is why I was shocked that they tried to spin off their DVD service.

What?

Are you are claiming that a professional programmer can be ignorant of FP and actor-model?

Or is reading PHP for moron sufficiently professional enough for you?

The KDE menu is horrible!

The "old" KDE 4 menu had dynamic search also.

The "you can change it" excuse is lame.

Ugly by default is not good policy.

Microsoft is experienced enough to know that Darkside couldn't do it, but they allowed them to continue on.

It is like morons trying to take all the blame off the banks for giving home loans to unqualified people.

That won't work for big games.

WoW cost something like $80 million for the initial release.

You aren't going to get kickstarter funded for anything but simple games.

Didn't MS kill Ensemble Studios in a similar manner?

They were one of the few game companies working for MS that produced quality games.

They were working on a contract and MS violated it by walking away.

They will get sued over this and lose.

Moral of the story: Never work with MS ever.

I know an owner of a small SaaS shop who outstanding with DB's.He wrote some extensions to SQL Server and MS licensed it for 1 specific version. They ended up putting it in all their versions and MS paid for it in court.

The idea that the small guy can not successfully fight MS in court is wrong.

That is why you have contracts for A,B, and C for $X with a stipulation that additional feature will cost more and will be negotiated separately.

Business that make MS a financial dependency deserve whatever they get.

Plasma 5 is flat and ugly.

The destroyed the KDE menu. Instead of easy to use tabs, it uses a vertical menu bar where most of the menu is below your screen.

It is an ugly mess.

IronPython is lagging far behind.

They are stuck on Python 2.6 compatibility which was released in 2008.

One in five VM's running on Azure runs Linux.

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