http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
"So you've got the Windows API, you've got VB, and now you've got .NET,
in several language flavors, and don't get too attached to any of that,
because we're making Avalon, you see, which will only run on the newest
Microsoft operating system, which nobody will have for a loooong time.
And personally I still haven't had time to learn .NET very deeply, and
we haven't ported Fog Creek's two applications from classic ASP and
Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET because there's no return on investment for us.
None. It's just Fire and Motion as far as I'm concerned: Microsoft would
love for me to stop adding new features to our bug tracking software and
content management software and instead waste a few months porting it to
another programming environment, something which will not benefit a
single customer and therefore will not gain us one additional sale, and
therefore which is a complete waste of several months, which is great
for Microsoft, because they have content management software and bug
tracking software, too, so they'd like nothing better than for me to
waste time spinning cycles catching up with the flavor du jour, and then
waste another year or two doing an Avalon version, too, while they add
features to their own competitive software. Riiiight."
