On: Redis for win32 and the Microsoft patch

[protomyth]

I would have hoped we all know how we felt and try not to do the same things Microsoft did. What comes around goes around and I really don't want to be on the receiving end again.

[beagle3 → protomyth]

> he same things Microsoft did.

Are still doing.

> What comes around goes around and I really don't want to be on the receiving end again.

You're still on the receiving end. And "what comes around goes around" is simply what's happening to Microsoft in this case.

[generalk → beagle3]

Let's be fair though -- Microsoft went ahead and grabbed the open-source code and provided a patch that makes it mostly work under WinAPI. In my book, that's pretty decent behavior.

[beagle3 → generalk]

> In my book, that's pretty decent behavior.

I'd reserve judgment about this specific case until we see how things actually turn out.

I've been dealing with Microsoft for more than twenty years, and I'm not holding my breath for their decent behavior, although it happen occasionally.

[protomyth → beagle3]

I think that acting like those you despise might get you ahead in the short term, but will ultimately make you just as despicable as them.

[beagle3 → protomyth]

Except antirez' argument is actually technical. It is not for political gain of any kind.

I really have no idea where you are coming from with this statement. My observation of the world is that "give the other cheek" gets you slapped twice and doesn't eventually put you in a better place (unless it is after you get to heaven, which I haven't yet experienced)

[protomyth → beagle3]

I wasn't arguing the technical, I was pointing out to the person making the comment about being a little happy about this that doing it out of revenge is not a good thing. Doing it for purely technical reasons is a good reason. Doing it because Linux "won" isn't since it hasn't.