Thanks to Eric Kidd for
this link.
Advice to Microsoft, from a Windows developer:
View Linux as you viewed the Mac in 1983. It’s a puzzle and
a curveball. You don’t own it. Find out what developers want to do
with Linux, then provide tools that make that easy. Create bridges
from Microsoft desktop apps to servers running on Linux. Invest in
WINE so Windows developers have a clear path to Linux without
creating new source code bases. I can hear Bill Gates now saying
“Never!” But until he embraces the Internet, in its latest
incarnation (Linux), without trying to own it, he’ll keep
losing…
(And of course nothing stays where it is. The world is
revolving at 1000 MPH. We’re all getting older. And new people are
being born. And some of them are growing up and want more options
than IIS, VB and ASP.)