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Does it concern you that if Microsoft doesn't establish more of a presence in mobile, it will become irrelevant? Does it compound that concern when Microsoft employees freely talk about the non-Microsoft operating systems they prefer let alone use? Does it send your concern over the edge when I tell you that you are sending a clear message that even Microsoft doesn't want to write apps for its devices?

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It can and it should. Otherwise, we're free to assume (and we do) that you judge your own company's products to be inferior.

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What financial incentives do independent software vendors have to publish their software as open source? Should they expect to subsist on donations? Should they expect to police the internet looking to reverse engineer code to see if their code is being used without their permission? And while we're at it, what incentives does Microsoft have to publish open source software other than to gain favor with zealots?

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That's a bit of a non sequitur since I have no idea how those things concern you. They should, though. Microsoft has no financial incentive to support those platforms other than to try and stay relevant. The problem is, though, the soldiers are not in on the general's plans. If Microsoft doesn't follow a Microsoft-first strategy, no one else should bother with a Microsoft-third strategy. So you can continue to blissfully write open source software for competitor platforms if it makes you feel good, but eventually the money will run out.