[Cialug] Windows 7 Hotcakes

[joshstrobl at hush.ai]

I agree on the issue of software development. At school (me being a 
high schooler) we use Visual Studio 2008 for programming. It's a 
great IDE no doubt, you can do console-based applications and 
windows applications. Unfortunately, this is something Linux lacks.
I use Gambas 2, the closest thing do a decent graphical 
application. For command-line (console-based) I use MonoDevelop.
You ever think that somebody will come out with a more accurate and 
user friendly IDE for creating graphical applications?

On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:04:49 -0600 Matthew Nuzum 
<newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> 
>wrote:
>>> I gave up trying to get .wmv files to play on my centos 5 x64 
>machine.
>>> I've got actual work to get done, I don't have time to screw 
>around with
>>> it, I'm actually money ahead to just put a windows 7 laptop on 
>my desk
>>> next to my Linux machine.
>>
>> You're money ahead.  But I hold out hope that that kind of BS 
>will put
>> an enterprising Linux company money ahead by fixing it.
>
>It's funny you mention that...
>
>I happen to know that there are companies trying to do this. 
>They're
>making progress, but it's harder than you think.
>
>Furthermore, there is a war in our community. It's the 
>blessing/curse
>of open source software. If you truly and deeply embrace open 
>source
>fundamentals, the open source community will work with you (but 
>even
>then they still fight and complain and argue and be mean to you
>sometimes). However, the commercial ISV market will shun you or at
>least remain distant.
>
>If you embrace the commercial ISV market then distant is the 
>nicest
>way to describe what your relationship with the OSS community of
>developers who you rely on will be like.
>
>It's a hard gap to bridge.
>
>I have an opinion that before we can make Linux palatable for 
>users we
>need to make it easier for developers, both oss and proprietary.
>Visual Studio does a good job of this on the Windows platform and 
>MS
>has always coddled developers and I think it's paid. You can 
>certainly
>develop software w/ Linux but there is nothing at all like the
>combination of VS and MSDN.
>-- 
>Matthew Nuzum
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