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A reminder about friction

A reminder about friction by Steve Klabnik
- Re: [shoes] A reminder about friction by Peter Fitzgibbons

A reminder about friction

From:: Steve Klabnik
Date:: 2012-01-09 @ 20:34

This article hit me kinda hard:
http://bvanderveen.com/a/dot-net-open-source-does-not-beget-open-source/

We've been making great strides on the OSX side of things. Here's
hoping that we'll get Windows reasonable in the future.

Re: [shoes] A reminder about friction

From:: Peter Fitzgibbons
Date:: 2012-01-09 @ 20:58

This is E X A C T L Y how Microsoft "defeats" non-Windows work... by making
all non-Microsoft workflows a near impossibility to repeat.
Unfortunately, it shows that the .NET cultural environment has not changed
in the 5 years since I've used it.
Jamie Cansdale was nearly brought to court over encouraging open-source
work.

Thank the Gods for Ruby.

So Say We All

Peter Fitzgibbons
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