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by skrebbel 5307 days ago
> You sir, are apparently willingly ignorant.

Hm yeah, it appears I am. I think you're actually right about that.

Have you come to this thread to bash anyone who "admits" to using Microsoft software? It feels like that to me.

I don't consider buying software from Microsoft to be "choosing a side", just like I don't consider buying Apple products to be choosing a side in the child labor wars, just like I don't consider buying a chocolate bar means I choose the side against slavery in Africa. If you're as hard-line as you demand, everybody becomes a hypocrite.

> Cool. Don't be surprised that your choice of platform and tools, e.g. the latest-and-greatest .NET 4 Entity Framework, limits your access to other tools, e.g. redis. Life is a tradeoff.

Completely true! Did I ever say anything to the contrary?

There's a big difference between "There are valid use cases for Redis on Windows" and "I demand that Antirez port Redis to Windows, now, for free". I really only made the former point, but I have the feeling that you're passionately ranting against the latter.