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@fanbaby:

It will be a cold day in hell before Microsoft starts building on GNU tools. Irrelevancy or not, that's just not going to happen any time soon.

Besides I don't think I'd start using Windows for in place of GNU/Linux even if it "just" had POSIX/GNU support.  It needs the same tools and UI capabilities too. And license..

Patent trolling is more of a smash and grab business model for for law firms masquerading as tech companies. It's not long term sustainable for a real technology company because patents don't last very long and are often invalidated in court anyway.

5 hours ago, PaoloM wrote

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Desktop share: in the hundreds of millions.

Web-developer share: in the thousands, maybe.

I don't know, I'm not sure who should they focus on...

I would say developers are far more valuable individually to a platform. Without developer support you won't have users to begin with..

Really nice.

2 days ago, Dirtbagg wrote

*snip* Andreesen certainly does look like a conehead

You shouldn't say that too loud. Black helicopters are coming for you now.

The blog post seems a little anemic on information on how this actually works.

I don't think anything about writing a web application is any harder, and it's certainly I would find it a lot easier to make a nice looking and functional website then making a nice looking and functional WinForm application. Yes, I've done both professionally..

I agree with the idea that it can be hard to write certain classes of apps (your standard LoB app is not one of them), but part of it is trying to write web applications like you write desktop apps. There is a reason why Microsoft is pushing MVC these days. It's the correct abstraction for a RESTful system.

2 minutes ago, evildictait​or wrote

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FTFY.

So the web isn't the largest interconnected computer network of human knowledge and culture in existence? Please.

2 minutes ago, evildictait​or wrote

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Linux has always dominated the OS market for embedded devices for over a decade. And it's not built by a web company. And nobody has surpassed Microsoft in the desktop OS market where they still own 99% of all consumer and business desktop sales.

Excuse me, but do embedded devices include tablets in this case? Because before Android, Linux certainly didn't dominate tablets. Actually, Windows did. Microsoft even developed "tablet editions" of Windows for some time.

So, sorry, what's your point?

That I don't find Microsoft having 10% marketshare impressive at all?

@TexasToast:

I'm just identifying what the web is. I didn't use qualitative adjectives to describe it, even though the web is great thing.

Religion is also a powerful idea even if it is devoid of logic and reason. The reason it sounds so religious is because the web is really that powerful of an idea, so it's easy to confuse one for another.

(Sh!t I opened another can of worms. Running away now.)