Re:Microsoft looking to release Office for Linux in 2014
by SkyMarshal on Thursday February 07, 2013 @04:40AM
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>and he has chosen to use rails for his next project (discourse).
Fwiw he went with Rails for Discourse because the entire stack has to be both free as in beer, and Free as in liberty, since it's competing against phpbb and the like, which are both f/Free and good enough for most people.
For Discourse to take off in the way he wants it to, he can't risk relying on better features to compensate for cost differential, he has to eliminate cost differential.
If he were building another SO or closed-source SaaS product, asp.net mvcc would probably still be an option.
Fwiw he went with Rails for Discourse because the entire stack has to be both free as in beer, and Free as in liberty, since it's competing against phpbb and the like, which are both f/Free and good enough for most people.
For Discourse to take off in the way he wants it to, he can't risk relying on better features to compensate for cost differential, he has to eliminate cost differential.
If he were building another SO or closed-source SaaS product, asp.net mvcc would probably still be an option.