Comments on: How can Open Source Software compete? http://lostechies.com/seanchambers/2008/02/22/how-can-open-source-software-compete/ Just another LosTechies site Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Henning Kilset http://lostechies.com/seanchambers/2008/02/22/how-can-open-source-software-compete/#comment-200 Henning Kilset Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:54:03 +0000 /blogs/sean_chambers/archive/2008/02/21/how-can-open-source-software-compete.aspx#comment-200 Why blast you - I completely agree with you. It is a fact that Microsoft has a VERY commanding presence in our market. But hey - the tools they produce are also what makes excellent open source projects like Castle and Nhibernate doable in the first place. I like to think of it as MS providing an extended platform, while the real work is up to us, as developers. If you wish, you can go with the hand-holding ways of MS, or you can create kick-ass code with tools that don't neccesarily get in your way :) Why blast you – I completely agree with you. It is a fact that Microsoft has a VERY commanding presence in our market. But hey – the tools they produce are also what makes excellent open source projects like Castle and Nhibernate doable in the first place. I like to think of it as MS providing an extended platform, while the real work is up to us, as developers. If you wish, you can go with the hand-holding ways of MS, or you can create kick-ass code with tools that don’t neccesarily get in your way :)

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