No Respect for Windows Open Source

man_of_mr_e writes "Shaun Walker, one of the founding developers of the DotNetNuke Portal/CMS has written an interesting piece about Open Source software on the Windows platform. "It's hard being an open source project on the Microsoft platform. Because no matter how hard you try to exemplify true open source ideals, you will not get any respect from the non-Microsoft community." He also says "There are Open Source zealots who believe that unless an application is part of a stack which includes 100% Open Source services and components, that it can not claim to be Open Source. [...] But does this "stack" argument actually make any sense?""

Re:A lot like Star Trek...

[rwven]

oh come on... If i wrote some open source app for windows it's not like i have some secret mission to promote Microsoft. Keeping it open source just means that you can take my source-code and port it to LINUX, thus furthering your "secret mission" of linux domination. :-P

Lets be serious here...

[danielk1982]

...reminds me of that Star Trek Voyager episode a friend of mine watched and told me about because I'd never watch that. The Voyager was chasing down...

We're all geeks here, no need to deny it.

Re:A lot like Star Trek...

[ChatHuant]

Could you explain how IIS is more secure than Apache?

I could: Apache 2.0.x [secunia.com] had 28 security advisories since release (2 still unpatched at the time of writing), while IIS 6.0 [secunia.com] had only 2 until now, and they were both patched.

Re:Let me rephrase it a bit... more...

[pedantic bore]

I can buy an FPGA

Good heavens, don't do that!

There are only a few vendors who make FPGAs with enough gates to run a full MIPS core (you'll need more than the mimimum to boot an interesting operating system). And then you're locked in!

Unless the FPGA design is open source, you're a complete hypocrite, worse than any Windows user, because you preach open source and are living in sin.

Re:Open source is...

[Short Circuit]

Yeah, well, according to those guys, Microsoft beats sex [googlefight.com]. I'd be a little leary of them...

Re:Open source is...

[TrancePhreak]

But according to these "guys", Microsoft beats Open Source [googlefight.com]. I'd be a little leary of them.

Re:A lot like Star Trek...

[robertjw]

That would explain the mass exodus of Apache users moving to IIS 6.

Re:Not true

[peawee03]

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