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Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills.

Newsgroups sci.physics, comp.os.linux.advocacy
From JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet>
Subject Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills.
References (3 earlier) <Jeff-Relf.Me@May.7{4.29P.Seattle.2016}> <Jeff-Relf.Me@May.8{2.45A.Seattle.2016}> <ce73cfd2-f8ef-4fc7-a108-a07a24aab130@googlegroups.com> <Jeff-Relf.Me@May.9{7.14P.Seattle.2016}> <57317fcd$0$46641$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com>
Message-ID <slrnnj71nl.7km.jedi@nomad.mishnet> (permalink)
Date 2016-05-11 14:24 -0500

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

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On 2016-05-10, benj <nobodyxx@gmail> wrote:
> On 05/09/2016 10:14 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>>
>>
>>     You (MrAA) replied (to me):
>>     > > It took me 11 hours to upgrade from Win8 to Win10.
>>     >
>>     > Why did you do it?
>>     > Don't you think Linux should be the next step?
>>
>>     I'm a _professional_ Windows programmer.
>>     Besides, Win10 works great ! !
>>
>>     Linux simply doesn't have the software/drivers that I require.
>>
>>     Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills;
>>     but I'm not one of them, not at all.
>>
>>
> This is so funny Rolf I won't even comment!
>
> Yeah, real imperial programmer!

   If anything, Unix has no handicap when it comes to "professional 
programming". Applications for small verticals and big studio games are the 
usual "monopoly" problem.

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Re: It took me 11 hours to upgrade from Win8 to Win10. Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-05-09 16:50 -0700
  Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-05-09 21:34 -0700
  Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills. benj <nobodyxx@gmail> - 2016-05-10 02:29 -0400
    Re: Many people can't afford Windows, both in terms of money and skills. JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-05-11 14:24 -0500

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