>>>> Afterall, there is nowhere written, as to my knowledge, that MS promisses
>>>> to continue development of .NET for as long as the company will remain
>>>> to exist.
>>
>>Looks to me like you are really trying to find a lot more stability than this entire industry will ever provide. After all, change and advancement is what drives the software business...
>
>Now you've taken my paragraph out of context. I was using it as an argument that those who think .NET (as an example) is a safe haven should not feel too secure about that haven. Afterall, as I understand from people like Craig Berntson, a company owes us not much more than what's promissed in the eula. So, we should take the eula far more serious and not presume things that are not explicitly written.


You are right of course in that I pushed that point to the extreme. ;-) Nevertheless, I think the point that .NET is not going to be around forever is a bit of a mood point since that is true for everything in this industry.

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