From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T08:15:55+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby...will it be like J++?

On 10/23/07, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this mean that the JRuby, rubinius, and Ruby.NET folks (none
> of whom are MSFT by the way) are also intent on destroying Ruby?
>
> I think it's an awfully broad and underinformed brush you're painting
> with there.
> thanks,
> -pate

I'll personally try to not do a broad brush stroke, but you have to
admit that MS, or M$ as some call it, is a shining example of
capitalism run awry.  Now, I like MicroSoft -- quite a bit actually --
but, the business practices every once and a while scream of
selfishness; Adam Smith to a tee.

So, where do the others (rubinius, JRuby, IronRuby, CLR, blah blah)
fit into the picture?  I'm not sure.  But, it will be interesting to
find out.

Off topic: Recently, the haiku-os (formerly openbeos) project lost two
of its main developers/contributers because they had other life things
they had to attend to.  The original BeOS was swallowed up by Palm
INC., who, as far as I know, did nothing with the code (quite possibly
the most brilliant C++ code in history; I think I have the email
transcripts to prove it if anybody would want them).  I would not like
to see a similar (wasting away/gobbling up) with Ruby.

Todd