[Lazarus] Xamarin becomes free and open-source

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, vfclists . wrote:

> On 31 March 2016 at 21:56, Denis Kozlov <dezlov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 31/03/2016 21:31, vfclists . wrote:
>>
>>> They are going all out against Apple and Redhat.
>>>
>>
>> You meant Apple and Google maybe? They target Windows, Mac/iOS and Android.
>>
>> A wide selection of supported platforms is where FPC and Lazarus defiantly
>> have an edge.
>>
>> Denis
>
> They are going after the whole Linux.Unix system. They want Linux admins and
> developers to realize that they can have good GUI development and
> server-management
> tools available on Windows and still have all the command line goodies
> they've learned to love on Linux.

I seriously doubt this will have any effect.

Most (if not all) of their admin tools are GUI based. 
That makes scripting them impossibile. Which is the point of scripting.

Some years ago they announced that the sever could run "without GUI".
I think it was windows server 2012. Till you need to run an installer to
install some software... And all windows software installers are GUI based.

We threw out windows servers, and the admin crew is all the more happy for
it, because now they can script literally everything.

More importantly, windows is still a black box. Something happens, you get
completely stuck. I still need to encounter the problem I cannot solve with
the use of strace on linux.

Michael.