[rescue] Perverse Question

[Dave McGuire]

On Sunday, June 15, 2003, at 05:10 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> Well, .NET sounds to me as the first non-braindead MS technology. 
> There may be
> a lot of application development frameworks, but if .net lives up to 
> the
> claims of language independence (doubtful) or platform independence 
> (MS -
> also doubtful) it might actually be neat.

   Platform independence??  .NET has been architected from the ground 
up, like most other MS products (C# anyone?) to lock people into their 
products for the long-term.  This is not platform independence.

        -Dave

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