Tilting at Windows. Why rejecting Microsoft’s OSS contributions is counter-productive

Motivation to use F/OSS instead!

LOL Bob, so true.

So silly to natter on how people are mean to poor Microsoft. Poor MS, all defenseless like little kittens, friendless and alone. Let's send them some flowers and a nice card.

Put a bee in the flowers.

For shame, gus, that would be cruel. Because bees lose their stingers when they sting someone, and then they die. Wasps don't, so wasps in the flowers would be more humane.

Or even better, hornets.

> Or even better, hornets.

And wrap the flowers in poison ivy. :)

If they do not get to put there code in the mix it will be harder for them to influence the direction that Joomla travels. One thing they can do, even if there code is up and up is to slow down the progress by making sure that the code they put in is frequently changed or when maintenance is needed they respond or fix it slowly.

If it's not core then it gets dropped, if it's core than it gets forked. It's not an issue if it's OSS.