@Amanya, my apology, I mis-spelled your name in an earlier post. :-)

 

@Ashok, though am not Mr Microsoft or Mr Mac but am Mr Proprietary in the context of the mails, you have asked a very good question. Why if Windows holds e.g. 50% of the market share are desktop apps not being created that fast and diverse? I can tell you that when we have a strong C# and ASP.NET focus group/list, these are things that need to be answered and looked into. This is a large coder/developer market share to not only create but also financially benefit from and if members of the group will earn from their coding/developing, that is even better.

 

Now @Ashok, for my turn to ask you a good question since you have no idea why linus did the kernel. On the Web, LAMP is the standard for most web apps. Are there any kenyans contributing to any of these software/foundations in code, patches, updates or financially? Developers must be making money obviously, so what about the obligations of using free-code?

 

Rgds.

 

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** Before this thread goes crazy and in the wrong direction, I'd like to make it clear to all those onlist who are not developers but earn an income on freedom/open/proprietary software to ignore this thread completely as its mostly about coders/developers and so there will be some un-necessary or heated exchanges. These are our views as a bunch of crazies, and do not represent any authority, accuracy whatsover. **

 

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