[Lazarus] Xamarin becomes free and open-source

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, Santiago A. wrote:

>
> I agree that is not easy. Windows has created his own set of services,
> uses a strange jargon and nomenclature for services and stuff that has
> been there for years in unix world. But that's its strategy: Make unix
> admins a little more comfortable with windows concepts, jargon and
> products. Maybe next time a unix admin faces a windows product, he won't
> push for only-unix solution so hard.

Yes, they are a wolf in sheepskin...

I cannot understand that Canonical agreed to cooperate on this.
It's called shooting in your own foot...

> And don't deceive yourself. Scripts are the most powerful solution, but
> a GUI need less knowledge and expertise, so they may be cheaper in the
> long run.

You therewith assert that microsoft advocates ignorance and stupidity ? :-)

All very nice till you hit a really hard problem and then you need to call 
an expert anyway, who charges you astronomical amounts of money for deleting a
registry key or so. It's a nice deceit...

Michael.