(Gosh, this sounds quite grumpy, doesn't it?  5 hours of work-related 
wrangling with Windows trying to get some embedded devel tools to work does 
that to me)


All I mean is that it's not accurate that all this interoperability stuff is 
without cost, and that it can in fact harm users pretty directly, by 
diverting developer users. And since I particularly care deeply about a 
commitment to existing users and developers, I find that cost non-trivially 
high.

-Maksim