Evangelism is War — The Mono/Moonlight Agenda

“I was going over an old Groklaw posting that got me thinking
about Microsoft and it’s .NET Agenda. I decided to do more
research and took a look at the Comes vs Microsoft documents again
but from the perspective of the current Mono issues. After reading
the information contained in the documents I am even more convinced
that Mono and Moonlight do nothing but help Microsoft win against
competing platforms. I will quote and comment on a few relevant
sections I found useful to prove my point. These are old documents
however I am looking at them with a different angle.

“Evangelism Is War

“Our mission is to establish Microsoft’s platforms as the
de facto standards throughout the computer industry. Our enemies
are the vendors of platforms that compete with ours: Netscape, Sun,
IBM, Oracle, Lotus, etc. The field of battle is the software
industry. Success is measured in shipping applications. Every line
of code that is written to our standards is a small victory; every
line of code that is written to any other standard, is a small
defeat. Total victory, for DRG, is the universal adoption of our
standards by developers, as this is an important step towards total
victory for Microsoft itself: “A computer on every desk and
in every home, running Microsoft software.”

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