Comments on: Feeding the Revenue Beast http://davidsidlinger.com/blog/2007/07/09/feeding-the-revenue-beast/ And the monkey flips the switch. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:13:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: david http://davidsidlinger.com/blog/2007/07/09/feeding-the-revenue-beast/#comment-25 david Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:05:17 +0000 http://davidsidlinger.com/blog/2007/07/10/feeding-the-revenue-beast/#comment-25 <p>Maybe there is a little bit, but I <em>am</em> tired of being jerked around, and things seem to be a lot different outside of the Microsoft walled garden.</p> <p>Open source projects don't have sales numbers to make; so, they don't need to generate artificial change and API churn</p> <p>Almost every other technology stack I look at strives to make backward compatibility a priority. You know, like they used to do at Microsoft.</p> Maybe there is a little bit, but I am tired of being jerked around, and things seem to be a lot different outside of the Microsoft walled garden.

Open source projects don’t have sales numbers to make; so, they don’t need to generate artificial change and API churn

Almost every other technology stack I look at strives to make backward compatibility a priority. You know, like they used to do at Microsoft.

]]> By: Patrick Altman http://davidsidlinger.com/blog/2007/07/09/feeding-the-revenue-beast/#comment-24 Patrick Altman Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:25:07 +0000 http://davidsidlinger.com/blog/2007/07/10/feeding-the-revenue-beast/#comment-24 <p>I detect a wee bit of cynicism....</p> I detect a wee bit of cynicism….

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