As per my post from a while back, I've been using MONAD now for about two months. Guess what... While I've kept quiet on the matter (I know, a rare event) MONAD flat out ROCKS!!!
There are a million reasons why I have vowed to never go corporate...
Now I have one that can be added to the "well, if I could work for him... that policy might be reconsidered." Don't get me wrong... I have no plans or desires to do such a dastardly deed (meaning to go corporate.) I'm just suggesting that if the time came that I began to change my mind even a little bit on this matter, this is exactly the kind of PM I would want to work for.
Some people just get it. Based on what I heard and saw in this interview, Jeffery Snover is one of those who get it.
I like that.
[NOTE : Regarding MONAD : If anybody in authority at MS happens to read this, please know this one thing:
Take MONAD away from me... I'm gone.
GNOME has already won my desktop heart over, but I can't work on GNOME/Linux and still use the development tools I've become WAY TOO ACCUSTOMED TO to commit myself full time to a Linux/GNOME distro full time. There are a few other reasons as well... lack of any streaming audio services that offer a collection that includes something other than Lawrence Welk [speaking figuratively...], and the same goes for streaming video, although with as little time I spend watching movies on my PC, or for that matter, in general(I stopped watching TV years ago... Don't even remember the last time I turned one on. Oh wait... Sonics/San Antonio series from last season... that was the last time) I could do without that quite easily.
Anyway, back to my point. Like I said.... Take MONAD away and I can't think of one reason I wouldn't switch completely to a GNOME/Linux Distro...
[UPDATE(2005.10.03) err... What the hell am I saying here... If you feel or felt a bit confused, don't feel bad, I'm completely confused as well,... Am I staying because of Monad or not leaving because of Visual Studio? Lets see if we can make some sense of whatever point I thought I was making...]
If your'e Q: is: Your'e sticking with Windows because of MONAD?
A: Ummm... did you not read the part about the whole 'dev tool' things? Yeah, K, next question... ;)
[UPDATE[2]: Whoa! What? ... << rewind << ...]
No, to be fair, in some ways, Yes, MONAD is *THAT* good and has become that important of a part of my Windows dev life. But again, there are other reasons that keep me over here. But if this were to disappear.... OOOOHHHHHHHWUHUHUHUHUHHH... I SHUDDER at the thought...
[UPDATE[3]: Ok, this is where it comes back to something worth making note of. The bottom line... MONAD fills a much needed hole. If it suddenly were to disappear from existence I think I would definitely start to seriously consider shifting gears and begin moving towards Linux dev tools, in particular Mono Devtools, and even more specifically MonoDevelop. What if the Mono project were to develop a MONAD equivalent? Definitely would get my attention but there's atill a whole lot of tool in Visual Studio that, as of yet, just doesnt exist in the Linux/Mono world. What about Eclipse? For Java, sure... but I do my best to avoid Java as much as possible so it doesn't do me a lot of good beyond hacking at the Saxon code base for the latest Saxon.NET build. As far as .NET development goes, nothing even comes within spitting distance if VS.NET, and I'm not talking about VS.NET 2005 which ups the anti even further...
Even still... VS.NET or no VS.NET, I REALLY LIKE Microsoft Shell. Please don't take it away from me. Much love will be sent your way. Thanks! :D]