Re: FN-FORUM: help

date posted 5th February 2008 13:40

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 15:19:19 Phillip Healey wrote:

> Absolutely! It's about preference, choice and what's fit for your intended
> purpose. However on a slight path of disagreement, i've gotta point out
> that .Net can now be developed with FREE software developed by Microsoft

Where is this free software from Microsoft that I can install on my Ubuntu=
=20
workstation or our Debian server so that I can develop .Net?

> that doesn=E2=80=99t generate them income. .Net hosting can be purchased =
at similar
> prices to php hosting. Therefore the only possible avenue for Microsoft
> making money from .Net is that of the hosting company buying licenses for
> windows server.=20

AIUI [1] the only things Microsoft *really* makes money on is the two=20
things where they have established a de facto monopoly: the desktop=20
OS, and the Office suite. Quite possibly these days they get significant
revenue from Server OSs.

[1] Was the case a few years ago.