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Not entirely.
It's called competition!
Remember, IE was NOT free initially. Then Mozilla came, then IE was free.
VS 5, 2002, 2003 (which I bought at an affordable price for a student or poor young worker) were not free, then SharpDvelop was becoming an increasingly attractive open source and free alternative. Then they started community.
Same thing now!
iOS is eating their market (perhaps Linux too?) and they have free dev tool?
It's clear to me. I love Microsoft. And I have its competitor to thanks for that!
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It's the new CEO. He used to be a software engineer. Still thinks like one. Awesome for the community! 
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What scathy statement? Where did he call you "funny guy"? links please to his exact comments.
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Here[^]
Calling me a "Funny guy" is fine, but at least I wished he replies me after I gave my explanation.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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John will most likely not abide by your wishes. Let it go and move on. Calling him out on it will not help either and I have seen this in the past to prove futile.
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Spot on. Sane words! I kind a realized that. I think I just need to spend more time in forums to get back my thick skin.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Brother Vunic,
If you are worried about what anyone has "called you" here (the Lounge), or anywhere else on CodeProject, you may be suffering from SNOBARFOP (Social NetWork Obnoxious Behavior Attitude Reactivity Feelings of Persecution) Syndrome.
Be assured this is not you that is having these feelings, but rather it is the outcome of a type of social-emotional virus that rides on the coat-tails of high-frequency internet use to infiltrate the vulnerable minds of programmers high on their own abstractions.
And, be assured the apparent sources of this inner disturbance ... the behaviors you perceive as directed at you ... are simply the outcome of the same syndrome exhibited by the carriers of this virus. Yes, like many virii, SNOBARFOP selects certain infectees which it engineers into being carriers, but who, themselves, do not experience the downside (the negative feelings) that the average infectee experiences.
Just as the Toxoplasma gondii parasite can engineer the behavior of mice so they are less afraid of cats [^] in order to get itself into the cat where it can reproduce, SNOBARFOP can transform middle-class Texas kids who are computer nerds (who grew up going to the mall, not the firing range) into pistol-packin' on-line hell-raisers, quick on the draw with what may seem like insult.
Is there a cure ? Well, that's a big question, and, after I finish an hour or two of crying because nobody has read the recent QA answer I thought was one of my best ... I'll think about it again.
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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I think you can write an article on that.
Yeah, to be honest I get a bit irritated when someone makes an unwarranted statement.
And ignore an explanation for it.
But here in this thread, my message was more towards asking him to see what MS is up to. I felt like he's stuck on the days where MS might have tried to make money out of every single thing they make.
Now they throw a lot of things for free , open source frameworks, & as an organization if you got an MSDN license, nothing like that. The whole bundle is up there to take.
When I said, "You shouldn't have called me funny" , I meant he was completely wrong about Microsoft. & ask him take his words back both on Microsoft & about my comment.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: I get a bit irritated when someone makes an unwarranted statement.
You made him laugh. His statement said that you made him laugh.
How in the name of Crindlberry do you define the truth as being "unwarranted statements".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Jeeze, if you think John behaves arrogantly and rudely, you should maybe not go anywhere else on the Interwebs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just updated my OP. How childish it might have sounded like. That was not my whole intent 
Thanks for your reply!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: Just updated my OP. How childish it might have sounded like.
Brother Vunic,
I did forget to mention that denial is often the first reaction in the initial stages of infection by SNOBARFOP; as yet we do not have evidence, at the level of confidence needed to attribute causality, if this behavior, and its accompanying emotional affect of "rueful regret," is directly caused by the virus.
But, it does appear ... for which we are thankful ... that you are not in the psychotic phase sometimes seen in recent infectees: you do not claim your words were written by someone pretending to be you.
The "jury is still out" on whether a recent infectee who claims public statements they authored were the result of possession by an alien intelligence, or entity, is ipso facto evidence for the psychotic phase of early infection.
After all, some of the researchers say the virus is an alien intelligence. It is unfortunate that at the last WOCOROSNOBARFOP (World Conference on Research on SNOBARFOP) arguments over whether the virus was intelligent led to gunfire and fatalities.
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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I was thinking you are saying something sensible, you turn out to be a silly guy!
Okay please hold on there. I said that intentionally, to put you in my shoes. Excuse me. Did you really like me calling you a "silly guy" ? Is it not as simple as that? I dont mean to really call you with a stupid name. I got respect for you. And I know how to behave in forums.
But please excuse me my brother , I dont fit into the terminologies you have discovered. I'm a simple man expecting common sense in a conversation. The man in context, usually makes loud comments and nobody bothers to say a word against that behavior.Why? My simple effort here is to remind him, some people talk back instead of going dumb for his loud, unsollicited comments.
Please don't support arrogant behaviors in forums! All the advices you have given me just tells that we need to move on , no matter what people throw on us? And to remind you, no where I've used any words that's objectionable or offending John Simmons. Its just a reply I've given him.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Brother Vunic, I like your shoes, but I am so silly that I can fit into anyone's shoes ... if I ever get bored with being barefoot.
I wore John Simmons' shoes the other day; that was interesting, but left me a little saddle-sore.
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Social behaviors are formed with examples. Everyone, particularly the young ones pick up what the other is doing. A man as old as John Simmons talking rubbish and not caring about it, easily sets the standard. I've been here for so long, and have watched him speak insanely rude with people. I never got a chance to say something against that by myself as I usually don't get into his arrogant threads. Just got one and I said what I wanted to say!
The real sickening thing is not about the actual guy, he is just being him! but people targeting me for speaking up on this. And subtly siding up with him , as if he's said nothing wrong. This is true crap! . I think people just love him for the way he's talking , exactly matching his profile picture. He reminds me Trump very much, and his supporters are of the same traits as their counterparts as well!
Don't think I'm saying something against your messages. No. I think somewhere in my data-mining system, I've collected some historical instances of sane-talk statistics , and your name is very much there. So no worries! And I know you don't care much. But just saying!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Brother Vunic,
Seriously, the only thing I am concerned with here is helping you to see that you have been "hooked" into a psychodrama with a certain type of on-line persona, and the accumulated residue of that conflict ... which you are now ventilating ... is not making you happy.
People in groups develop, maintain, elaborate, and manifest in action "personas," roles. And, groups feed, and nurture, and reinforce these manifestations of persona for various reasons. The anonymity of on-line interaction imho amplifies this tendency. The founder of the school of psychotherapy in which I once trained, and was accredited in, Moreno, believed that groups have a tendency over time to distribute attention selectively; a few people, those who have taken, "owned," strong roles, get more attention, others get less.
The rule-breaker, the boundary-crosser, the sexual super-start, the hero, the destroyer, the maniac, the god-possessed, the poet, the scoffer, the doubter, the idealist, the insane clown, the loser, the complainer, the pious, the depressed: on one level all these are circus acts. Perhaps it is a mystery that each of us (a whole person) at times plays these roles; at times identify so strongly with the roles we play that we are totally unaware we play them. But, role-taking is part of a socially dynamic process in face-to-face groups; it's been necessary as an evolutionary strategy for survival, for transmission of knowledge (culture) outside biological inheritance.
Because of my experience with a family member being an alcoholic, I have a strong reaction to people who appear to celebrate being drunk, or drinking heavily. Yes, I often get irritated by certain posts here. But, being aware of that reactivity, and its personal source, I can "get around" the reaction and never lose sight that behind the words, the imagery, that rankle my emotions, is a whole person who has many other dimensions. But, that doesn't mean I like those posts !
I'll shut up now; I'm not sure all this (from me) is really constructive.
yours, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Bill, I value your messages. Hence the conversation. Thanks for your time.
I'm mailing you the rest of my message.
John Simmons happened to be the subject here. We are talking in detail, And I don't want him to feel I'm taking this way too far. What he said is a simple arrogant comment, And I have replied him with a message. And I don't keep going after him like you say about the social-characters.
The real take away is getting to talk about this subject with you. Let me see if I'm really wrong in what I've done. Wait for my message in your inbox. thanks
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: Don't you think you shouldn't have called me "Funny guy"?
What did he get wrong?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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He isn't funny.
Of course, I may not have understood what he's upset about.
This space for rent
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I've never had someone get upset because I called them funny before, but I'm happy that I can finally cross that life goal off my list.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Haha! You are such a funny guy! 
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Damn you sucker Lloyd 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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You continue to amuse.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, that was crossing a line, I mean no one's called you gentle before
That said, now you can use Xamarin for free as cost was your biggest bottleneck when it was recommended to you!
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