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The problem isn't just the relationship that Microsoft has with OSS, but with developers in general. As developer in their "ecosystem" for years, I've come to the conclusion that the majority of the Redmond management is totally out of touch with the third party developers. Crap like Windows 8, "flat" interfaces, abandonment of APIs, NIH, reinventing the wheel, ignoring requests and feedback, etc, doesn't make it better.

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I think that you can say this about Apple too. Here's my rewrite of your statement:

"The problem isn't just the relationship that Apple has with OSS, but with developers in general. As developer in their "ecosystem" for years, I've come to the conclusion that the majority of the Cupertino management is totally out of touch with the third party developers. Crap like Mac OS X, "round" interfaces, abandonment of APIs, NIH, reinventing the wheel, ignoring requests and feedback, etc, doesn't make it better."

My mindset is that any mainstream, large vendor is going to have these traits.

Like any commercial vendor.

You can rephrase that using whatever commercial vendor you can think of.

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