Halloween is near

"Embrace, extend, extinguish". Does this sound familiar to anyone? Do the people working with Microsoft on Silverlight, Mono, and other projects learn anything from history? Or are they so short-sighted that they don't believe Microsoft will do it to them this time around? Unlike the dozens ir not hundreds of times Microsoft has done it to others in their 30 years of sucking people in then cutting them off at the knees?

Work with Microsoft, get burned. Can't help but wonder when the current crop of idiots will get theirs. Me, I'm staying far, far away. Dealing with Microsoft is like dealing with a Daveel from Asprin's Myth Adventures. If you think you got a good deal you need to first count your fingers, then your limbs, then your relatives (and teeth, and testicles, and wallet, and everything else you own), because some of them will likely have been included as part of the deal.