Comment Comment by matheusmoreira Hopefully Linux will be the operating system to benefit from increased development. I simply don't understand why developers keep investing their time on platforms that are openly hostile to them.These posts were written decades ago:http://www.paulgraham.com/road.htmlhttps://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...> If you want to write desktop software now you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS.> And if you manage to write something that takes off, you may find that you were merely doing market research for Microsoft.It keeps happening over and over again! parent matheusmoreira 6 years ago
These posts were written decades ago:
http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
> If you want to write desktop software now you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS.
> And if you manage to write something that takes off, you may find that you were merely doing market research for Microsoft.
It keeps happening over and over again!