>>But I find it amusing that defending it against a world that has moved on has taken on cult-like status as people dither for a decade over where to go next hoping to find something that can approach the wonders of the magic Fox.
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Yeah, yeah. IMHO we need to forget all this sort of stuff to reflect whether our buggy whips remain relevant at all now that the Henry Fords of the IT world have introduced automobiles/mobile devices. People may comfort themselves that Mono will keep their buggy whip relevant, but that's a highly risky proposition IMHO, especially when you track the ownership of Mono to a company for whom it's well outside their chosen profit niche.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1