Archive for March, 2004

When highways over ice melt

I can be such an ass sometimes.

Got into work and sent this email to a colleague:

Windows IS Cheaper than xNix (non-MS study for once): http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1553620,00.asp

He sent it onto some of his more… Flamboyant friends.

I got this response:

I manage both environments.

I write code for both environments.

I prefer the open environment.

I can choose between M$ and *nix when doing things depending on which OS is better for the task.

Who’s sheltered? :)

I don’t really read much /. anymore, however its a great example of apache/mod_perl…. I wonder what the equivalent M$ site would have cost….

For some reason I decided I’d had enough. It hadn’t even started yet and already I was sick of the guff:

Yuh-huh.

By write code I’m assuming he’s talking PHP-GTK or something useless like that. Sorry, but I measure professionalism and experience by results.

I couldn’t care less about which OS is ‘better’. They are equally suited to different tasks. Write code for both? That doesn’t show objectivity. Manage both? Great.

Prefers open environments? So he loves Mono and C# better than Java, yeah? They are far more open than Java by far.

As far as MS equivalent site. /. is nothing more than a glorified blog. Blog software’s cheap. Microsoft currently has 1000 employees blogging, many of them on blogs.msdn.com. But, hey, if he wants an equivalent CMS-level site, why not take a look at www.dotnetnuke.com. It’s far cheaper than the OSS alternatives.

Good luck, eh? You won’t find me to be an easy pushover by some OSS advocate who thinks counting in binary is fun, and that the Halloween letters are real.

Even if the guy wasn’t in the same province I could probably hear him fuming and spitting at the screen.

More to come. For some reason I’m in a mood to toy a little bit. I swear, I don’t indulge in this very often.

I’ll keep you posted. My office mate is enjoying this so much he’s forwarding it around to a few more of his friends.