PROPRIETARY software is neither winning nor losing. The same goes for Free software and the only clear winner seems to be something worse than proprietary in the sense that it makes people's own data proprietary, where the proprietor is hardly those people. We sometimes refer to this as "Fog Computing". Another troubling trend is the emergence of so-called 'shops' or 'stores' for applications (or apps for short). These turn Free software into something indistinguishable (or hardly distinguishable) from proprietary and under the excuse/reason of 'security' users are prevented from installing their own code/program on devices which they thought they bought to own. This has "DRM" written all over it. In recent years we saw Mono catering for that latter market rather than the Free desktops which users can actually control.
So part of my first three weeks as CEO of Xamarin has felt like a trip to a toy store. Everyone loves window shopping, so here is a list of some of the tools we’re using to run our startup...
The ‘cloud’ has been a buzzword for quite a while. While some are still rather cynical towards the concept, products like mobile phones with Android have shown the value of putting your data in that huge, amorphous network of servers somewhere. Apple recently introduced their new cloud service and Microsoft has their cloud too. So with the other major players talking cloudy, what does Linux have?
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Needs Sunlight
2011-06-19 16:31:25
Ubuntu's Bug #1 is that M$ has top market share. I don't see how furthering the spread of M$ products, which Mono is, helps solve that issue. Rather, to solve that issue, means of *reducing* the amount of and use of M$ products have to be taken seriously.