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nvoigt
Our whole line of work is built on using stuff we have no control over. Even Open Source in the end is an illusion. You are afraid MS will pull the plug ? What happens if Linus pulls the plug ? Don't tell me you personally will code patches and future Linux versions to support your line of products.
Why would I have to patch anything? The thing works just fine.
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You have the source. But you still need the manpower to put it to use.
That's the great thing about business. You can hire people.
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And you don't have it, or you wouldn't be using somebody else's OS, but your own.
That's a bunch of crap and you know it. Just because you have the capability to do something doesn't make it a good idea. Do you begin each new project by writing a compiler from scratch?
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With open source, you can at least hope someone else does the job, but don't tell me that is "independent". It's the same dependency on external events you have no control over.
Like so many others you have taken my irritation with Microsoft and flipped it around to assume that I must be some kind of Open Source fanatic. False dichotomy.
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As a last thought: if an application is windows-only, why would I bother with a cross platform framework?
The first time a customer offers you a crapload of money for a port, you will be kicking yourself.
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Why not use C#? Do you think the same application would be less Microsoft-centric, if I build it using MFC?
What would be less Microsoft-centric would be coding to an actual standard which is accepted somewhere other than on Windows platforms.
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Show me a single GUI Framework for C++ that cannot be changed by a third party at any time.
And they force you to upgrade how?