Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
by saulrh on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @12:09AM
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There's a slight difference between "pro-developer" and "pro-company-that-develops-things". Microsoft has always provided excellent corporate support. If you have an issue and you're paying lots of money, Microsoft will move one and zero to fix your problem. Early and recent Microsofts, though, have a feeling that middle Microsoft didn't where they're friendly directly to the people writing the code. Better documentation, better quality-of-life features (ssh, headless, Visual Studio), more listening to the community. I mean, ssh? A build specifically intended for the raspberry pi form factor?
That hasn't been my experience. Microsoft has always been supportive of my compiler company, even providing Microsoft tools to be bundled with it. In fact, a huge reason MSDOS was so enormously successful was the ease with which anyone could (and did) write and ship software for it. Microsoft was well aware of this and supported it.