Hanselminutes Podcast 266 - Open Source vs. Making Money vs. Freaking Lasers - Are we all Evil? With Chris Sells
Scott chats with Chris Sells about the pressure to release software as Open Source versus pressure to make money as a business. How are Google, Microsoft and Apple evolving over the years and what should we as developers do about it?
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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IE still represents a significant development hassle, for years to come (IE9 still has no HTML5 form features‽).
The broad perception that OOXML killed open document types (and therefore low-software-cost gov't participation) through bribery.
Persistent IP bullying, including constantly trying to choke Linux to death in the courts.
The free dev tools are great, and certainly win back some of the good will lost. I also think that .NET and PowerShell (after finally giving it another go), and F# are things to really be excited about, professionally.
I love the podcast, and I don't think that because an organization makes mistakes that all of its members are to blame.
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