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I don’t mean to be too in your face, but I’m not sure I agree with this. Anyhow, thanks for sharing and I think I’ll come to this blog more often.

Several times in this thread you talk about how Microsoft development software got you in the door for a very low price. I agree. I came in that same door at about the same time (I’m guessing.) That door has slammed shut. A kid today who wants to get into software development (especially without college) will not be able to afford a legal copy of Visual Studio .NET. Even if he could, VB.NET (and all the .NET environments for that matter) have necessarily gotten complex enough to be useful for developing modern professional applications. This necessary change is making the language so complex it is nearly inaccessible for beginners

Look at tomorrow’s Geralds. They are not using Visual C++. They are not using Microsoft products at all. They are using Linux, gcc, PHP, and other open source technologies. (They were using Flash, but Adobe’s going to price that out of reach for talented amateurs.) If you were starting today, I think you probably would be an open source advocate.

(I’ve written books on both .NET and open source technology. Doesn’t make me an expert, but I have done a little bit of real study of the matter.)

There is an alternative, the FairTax.org proposal. The FairTax would repeal all income taxes and replace them with a progressive retail sales tax. Imagine no corporate tax. Compliance costs would be about as low as they can go. The effective tax rate would also be lower because of a broader tax base. I urge you to educate yourself. Visit http://fairtax.org today and study it.

If you don’t have some productive alternative to offer you should keep your flame to yourself.

1.) we’re already trillions in debt. Do we really need another tax break?

2.) If this is allowed, the same principle will require tax credits for almost anything people spend time on. For example, If open source software developers get a tax credit for their time, then why shouldn’t I get a tax credit for the time I spent reading this blog and writing this comment? After all, both are contributions to a published work — what’s the difference?

3.) Unlike donations to charity (which are tax-DEDUCTIBLE, not tax-CREDITS), open-source software work is not a donation to a charitable organization. In contrast, work done on a website for a charity should be (and is) tax DEDUCTIBLE.

I suggest you take a look at a machine called the “Datapoint 2200″ which was available in 1971… (fully TEN YEARS before the first (external, audio-cassette-based!) IBM PC.. and which could hardly have been called a “business” computer). The Datapoint 2200 had an INTEGRATED CRT display and keyboard, digital magnetic storage, and LOOKED like (and was sold as) a piece of office, business equipment. It was designed to go on individual desktops within a business.

Note that Datapoint by the latter 1970s was a “Fortune 500″ companny, so I think that qualfies as a “big” company. Datapoint was connecting its desktop, individual, business computers via a multi-megabit, packet-based LAN (ARCnet) fully four years before the first (NON-networked!) strictly-single-user IBM PC hit the market.

IBM never released any self-written “DOS” for the IBM PC. They released (and sold for several years) their semi-customized version of Microsoft’s, produced (well, sold) under contract to IBM. Perhaps you are confusing IBM’s -mainframe- “DOS” operating system, which was a COMPLETELY different animal.

IBM continued private-labelling a “DOS” product (PC-DOS as opposed to MS-DOS, but they shared at least most of the same source code) (and later, their version of OS/2, which was similarly a joint effort with Microsoft). Due to philosophical differences, Microsoft went one way with NT and Windows, while IBM chose to stay with OS/2 until they finally acknowledged defeat and abandoned the doomed OS/2 product.

If you’re interested in the early days of the microprocessor and the PC, one of the best documents is a thesis (not by me, but which nonetheless is available at my Web site) which documents the role of Datapoint in helping to create the microprocessor, and the personal computer as a business product.

I beg to disagree. I don’t have an ax to grind whatsoever, but I am afraid you are sorely wrong on this one. Linux alone has in the vicinity of 26% of the server market share vs 35% for MS Windows (NT & 2k combined). Maybe you are talking about the client side.

Also, I forgot to mention Apache with roughly 66% of the market share.

Firefox is an end user application

I thought that’s what we were talking about: Software, not just developer tools. Am I mistaken?

As for your experience with MySQL -that’s odd. Considering a lot of people are using it as an alternative to Oracle or MS-SQL:
MySQL takes cue from the master

The Era of Open Source: Migrate your Data from MS SQL to MySQL

Successful yes. Replace Microsoft..No.

Right. That’s what we are talking about: Competing not replacing. No?

(…)but the open source community seems to think they must be enemies of Microsoft(…)

No comment -not my opinion.

And in rebutting my take on how Microsoft is expensive compared to open source, you ended up making my point: You have to pay to get Microsoft tools. You don’t in order to get open source equivalents. That makes MS stuff more expensive.

Again, I have no ax to grind. I don’t hate Microsoft but I can see it dispassionately because I was writing software while in college before MS was everywhere -and I am not that old. You seem to think Microsoft cares about you. They don’t. They “take care” of their community because it is good for business, nothing more.

I see Open Source as a very valid business model and viable alternative to the traditional software business.

What are you talking about? I specifically said I have been writing software professionaly for about 12 years now. I have been in this industry for a while and have read all the same crap about Microsofts “theft” as you have. I have learned how Microsofts development cycles work BECAUSE THEY PUBLISH IT TO TEACH OTHERS HOW. Look up all the books and magazines and whitepapers and MSDE study guides …on and on and on… Microsoft has a huge and comprehensive library of literature explaining exactly how to develop software successfully… You do NOT have to work there to get that info which is EXACLY what I was talking about …they support their community to an unbelievable degree. And I know EXACTLY how companies invest in software development because I have been the one paid that money to make that software OR I have been the one making those decisions. How did you not get that from my very detailed posts? Oh you didnt read anything but the first 3 sentences? ok well that maks sense now.