But let’s be honest about the situation; developing Windows applications is much easier to get into than developing for free OSes.

Have you heard of tools that just get in the way? They may be great if you want that straight jacket, but otherwise they aren’t of much use.

A major part of using a tool maximally and accurately is having all the information you need about that tool.

Also, MS tools aren’t too useful in some obvious ways (eg, if I want solutions for the Linux platform).

No, but is there any point explaining why?

We’ve already done that many times before. Search the site’s archives.

I therefore assume that you accept this post’s contention.

No, but is there any point explaining why? Your “team” are already convinced I work for Novell or Microsoft or the Rand Corporation, any disagreement is seen as sinister… what’s the point in counterpoint which is completely ignored?

I therefore assume that you accept this post’s contention.

Back on topic, Jo, please.

Why bother? It had its usual flame-based resolution-free arguments, with the requisite level of made-up demagogy

It’s terribly convenient to say “back on topic!” when someone replies to YOUR off-topic posts, isn’t it

You DO so love to quote other people then conveniently say “wait, I didn’t mean that” when called on it.

I’m amused by the extent to which every single syllable in my post on your comment censorship thread is proven more and more as the minutes pass

Unless its author, like you, is a believe in the time-travel theories surrounding Mono

Mono is code, not physics. Stay focused on the issue.

Unless its author, like you, is a believe in the time-travel theories surrounding Mono

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22434/1090/1/1/

‘Here’s a quote that says it much better than I ever could: “Mono is all about getting existing Windows applications, and their Microsoft-proprietary dependencies, installed on to your Linux system, so that you will in the near future require a paid-for license from Microsoft to run programs on your Linux system.”‘

You’re humoring yourself out of an issue you cannot address. Not the first time BTW…

I’m making more sense than you are, Roy. But it seems you really don’t understand why so much of what you say is garbage, so there’s little point in wasting my time on your education.

When it becomes too hard to avoid, then it’s hardly a choice. It’s a case of Microsoft’s ally, Novell, pushing it down people’s throat for the benefit of the monopolist.

Yeah, I hear they’re porting the kernel to only run on Vista as we speak!

http://linuxcanuck.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/how-windows-users-are-changing-linux-and-what-we-should-do-about-it/
I hereby repeat what this guy said.