From: "Furio R. Filoseta (tlf.)" <furifilo901@...>
Date: 2001-10-07T21:46:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22193] Re: Let's work on Windows support

For God's sakes ! I refuse to defend Microsoft !

And I refuse to discuss Microsoft with people like me. I am a developer
and I love my work. I have to admit I also work for the money. This
money I get from other people that chose to use Windows. If I wrote for
Linux or the Mac or whatever, I'd have to start delivering pizza since
here in Caracas, where I live, there is NO presence of alternative
platforms in businesses that do manufacturing. Oh, there are plenty of
AS400s, big iron HPs and such, but those are yet another target. Web
related business do use other platofrms, though. 

To me it is obvious that many of us are in the same situation: disliking
MS but having to work VERY closely with them in order to be able to get
work done. I thought that was the reason for having a Windows version of
Ruby in the first place. 

Well, I cold use Ruby.NET right now instead of using C#. 

So this is not about Microsoft, but about USERS of Microsoft products.
Hundreds of users that didn't decide on the OS they are using. Users
that would benefit from my application if I was able to write it more
robust and I answered to their requirements faster.

And why exactly is it that we dislike MS ? For me is that they had never
listened to what we developers asked for and the contempt with which
they regard us (me). Well, the contempt is still there, but .NET is
almost all I asked for, so I am actually happy with MS for now. I will
use it to make my Windows users happy. I hate it that I don't have Ruby
for .NET, but I have Python and C#. That will have to do for now, until
Takahashi san advances his project some more.