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Let us reason here:
Had MS given away tools that have a MORE general applicability than STRICTLY its OWN paltform, I would AGREE that they HAVE GIVEN to the S/W development community.

A small detail here is that their tools work ONLY to their closed and non-standard environment: ms-windows and x86/64 etc. They simply want to WOO people to start building libs and apps for MS's environment.

I have NOTHING AGAINST that, but this is only an "offer" to stimulate development for their NON-PORTABLE environment. Again that's fine, but I am certain that had MS thought that this will not pay off in terms of more MS developers, they wouldn't have give it away? Would they?

A way to truely offer: provide tools to develop for say, POSIX so that the developed code can run on ALL POSIX compliant platforms.

Would they do this? NO, OFCOURSE NOT.

BTW, Java is also free to develop code within its various IDES (Eclipse?) and this IS WAY MORE portable than the mediocre MSDN code snippets (most likely hacked off STL)

How about SUN which gives the Solaris 10 code and tools away for free? This is a WAY BETTER system than the GUI-ONLY bolognia that MSDN helps with.

So WHERE is the offer? Nonsense ... wink
Posted by: michael_t   Posted on: 06/27/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Feel free to share your code..  nucrash | 06/27/06
No thanks  Linux Geek | 06/27/06
Look but don't touch  whisperycat | 06/27/06
Okay, kitty-cat  Confused by religion | 06/27/06
I'll give you one, even if it might not be the last.  Letophoro | 06/27/06
I have found some  quantumstate | 06/27/06
What part of April's Fools day did you not understand  jmilne@... | 06/29/06
code-sharing site  not of this world | 06/27/06
Pls DO NOT get confused and believe that  michael_t | 06/27/06
I disagree  Patrick Jones | 06/27/06
Let us reason here:  michael_t | 06/27/06
As I stated  Patrick Jones | 06/28/06
Excuse me, but how does "shared source" differ from "open source"?  michael_t | 06/27/06
Easy..  Patrick Jones | 06/27/06
Ho ho ho ... incidentally, you are replying to my previous post  michael_t | 06/27/06
And again..  Patrick Jones | 06/28/06
and again I have NO problem whatsoever with that. If SUN was giving away  michael_t | 06/28/06
I don't work for them..  Patrick Jones | 06/28/06
I hear them talking tools  DemonX | 06/27/06
Microsoft Code of Conduct  bxj2006 | 06/27/06
Let's try that formatting again:  bxj2006 | 06/27/06
Here is one interpretation  Confused by religion | 06/27/06
its simple  not of this world | 06/27/06
its saying that  substand | 06/27/06
So uncompiled code is not software  quantumstate | 06/27/06
"soft"ware  bxj2006 | 06/27/06
WHO'S LAUGHING NOW  ghekko | 06/27/06
VB 6 run time.. where that? How about releasing protocol specs instead  john.gruber@... | 06/28/06
VB 6 run time.. where that? How about releasing protocol specs instead  Jacques@... | 06/29/06
I wonder...  Psyjack | 06/29/06
Back to the Future  3dguru | 06/30/06

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