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Quote: The OSS companies that will be pillars of IT in the future are the companies that leverage a successful OSS project for sales, marketing, and engineering prioritization but have a product and business strategy that includes some proprietary enhancements. They’ve figured out that customers are more than happy to pay for an enterprise-grade version of the complete product, which may have security, management, or integration enhancements and come with support. And they also understand that keeping this type of functionality proprietary won’t alienate the community supporting the project the way something such as a performance enhancement would.
This is where the problem arises though because any other company can offer a competing enterprise version of the OSS project for $1 less than yours and take some business away from you which in turn leads to a race to the bottom.
The only way to prevent that happening is with lawyers and frankly if your business model depends on lawyers you might just as well become a criminal 
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: This is where the problem arises though because any other company can offer a competing enterprise version of the OSS project for $1 less than yours and take some business away from you which in turn leads to a race to the bottom.
There are a few problems with your thesis:
1. Not all OSS licenses require that you publish any modifications that you made to the OSS code. This means that your hard work will not necessarily be placed in the public domain.
2. An enterprise-level corporation does not look merely at the price, but also at the support options. Even if companies cannot compete on the initial cost, they certainly can compete on customization options, service, etc. etc.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You’re not Steve Jobs. You’re mediocre, like me. You’re reading shabby online articles about how to be like somebody else. Do you think Steve Jobs did that? Motivation! Motivation! Motivation!
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Not me, I only read articles if they're written in Esperanto, because only the top smartest people in the world can speak and read Esperanto. 
I didn't even read your comment because it seems to be some type of English-type of language.
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Konservu batalante ke perdita batalo, frato!
TTFN - Kent
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Faros! 
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newton.saber wrote: because only the top smartest people in the world...
I don't agree. They doesn't have to be the smartest... only have more free time.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: Timeline 3, Steve Ballmer. You open the door to lots of blather an office chair thrown by a balding nutjob. That’s Steve Ballmer.
It’s easy to mock Ballmer.
FTFY. It did get one thing right though. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I thought to be like Steve Ballmer, you had to learn chair throwing
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Perhaps in defense of some insistent questioning coming from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, current CEO Satya Nadella is attempting to wrangle the narrative around Windows Phone’s app strategy. Like any fruit, it just needs time. And loads of fertilizer.
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Bull sh*t seems to be the furtilizer of choice.
New version: WinHeist Version You didn't fall from the stupid tree you got dragged through the whole dumbass forest.
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An the volume seems to be more than adequate!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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"Universal! Universal! Universal!"
EDIT: Am I the only one who thinks this framework is just a cheap rip-off of .NET library design and a warmed-up COM foundation, built by C++ lovers? 
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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: EDIT: Am I the only one who thinks this framework is just a cheap rip-off of .NET library design and a warmed-up COM foundation, built by C++ lovers?
It's made by the same people.. so you can't quite say that!
But
1. Yes, it is very strongly inspired, because .NET is good
2. It has more feature (think sensor API for example)
3. It has less feature (can't even access the disk without begging through a OpenFileDialog first)
4. It's a C++ lover affair sadly.. (allegedly because it was needed for supporting multilanguage support (i.e. Javascript!)(and frankly, who thought this would be a good idea?)) and also to provide better UI tool to native developer (it's painful to develop the polish of XAML-WPF App in C++) I guess that's a win for them... (whoever they are?!  )
But mostly I am sad that Midori[^] is just gone! 
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Virtual assistants are one of the trendiest themes in tech right now. Flip phones. They're totally coming back.
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My bet is futurama eyephone.
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The seldom-mentioned fifth 'bridge' designed to bring more apps to Microsoft's Windows 10 quietly debuted this week. See? Silverlight's not dead.
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Silverlight haahahaaahaaaaaaaaa.
Almost lost my cool there for a second. ~The Grinch (Jim Carrey)
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Ok, that's Sliverblight for WP8.1 covered; what about a porting tool for Silverblight in the browser?
Quote: The Mobilize.NET Silverlight bridge allows developers to convert Silverlight Windows Phone apps to Windows 10 Universal Windows apps and/or to HTML5 and JavaScript. According to the company's site, the bridging tool analyze an app's source code and converts the references either to Windows 10 application programming interfaces (APIs) or HTML5/JavaSript. "Either way you'll get native C# code with no runtimes," the company says.
Say what!?! Last time I checked HTML5/JavaScript wasn't anything like C#.  I'm guessing the author meant native windows runtime code (since for some perverse reason there is an HTML/javascript version of the metro API); not a leak of a web to C# bridge. Which's too bad, I'd've liked the latter. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Windows 10 likely focus again as company will be prepping 2016's first feature upgrade. All the big announcements will be on the last day
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Kent Sharkey wrote: All the big announcements will be on the last day
Without doubts biggest announcements will be on April 1st. 
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Never underestimate the power of spreadsheets. But boss. I am working, look, it's just a spreadsheet
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The screenshots didn't make me to change my decision and call Office (Excel) back...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yeah, it doesn't exactly need a high end video card.
TTFN - Kent
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Source will be available from January, and open to community contributions. I wonder if they'll accept a pull request to convert it to C#?
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