The Wicked Witch of the West, Krysta Svore

2 years ago, I pointed out that Krysta Svore often behaves unethically.

Quantum Open Source 2016

Moral Corruption of Krysta Svore and Her Accomplices

What devious misdeeds has she been up to lately? Well, as of today, April 3, 2018, she has:

• a whopping 24 software patent applications (14 of those are on quantum computing). See USPTO search results here Check it out. Pretty soon, you won’t be able to do some pretty trivial operations in quantum AI without paying Microsoft.
• a whopping 15 granted software patents (8 of those are on quantum computing). See USPTO search results here.

In a previous blog post, I compared in detail artiste-qb.net’s quantum computing language Qubiter to Microsoft’s quantum computing language Q#. Q# is a Rube Goldberg machine language that doesn’t even look like what everyone else calls quantum computing. It looks very different and is much more convoluted than its major competitors (IBM qasm, Rigetti PyQuil, Google’s ProjectQ, and the best of its class, Qubiter). Why would anyone want to learn another crappy Microsoft language, when, instead, they can use Python, like all the competitors just mentioned are doing? The choice of Python for this task is not a fluke, there are some very good reasons why MS’s qc competitors are using Python. Python is well designed, powerful, beautiful, and it has a richer collection of science-math-engineering supporting apps (its “ecosystem”), most of which are free and open source, than any other current language.

So why does Q# suck so badly? Is this just a consequence of Microsoft’s penchant to monopolize markets and “bind for life” its customers to its products, or is there an aggravating factor? Yes there is an aggravating factor. It’s that one of the main architects and promoters of Q# is the Wicked Witch of the West, Krysta Svore.

In a scary nightmare that I keep having, Krysta yells the following curse to all qc fans:

“From the pits of Microsoft Hell, I curse thee, may you, and your children, and your children’s children, and their little dogs too, be forced to use Q# for the rest of their careers. ha, ha, ha, I made it extra convoluted to enjoy your pain.”

I predict that Q# will end up being as popular as the Zune. Will Microsoft rightly blame Krysta for the abysmal failure of this product, or will they blame Dave Wecker instead? Whoever is blamed will probably end up in Microsoft-Siberia, vanished from quantum computing land, bug testing new features for Microsoft-Office.

Krysta Svore, the Wicked Witch of the West

The Wicked Witch and her loyal servant

Dave Wecker

discuss Q#

Krysta’s Flying Monkey and coffee boy, little Nate Wieber,