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Applications are Open Source Too
Feb 20, 2008, 03 :15 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (5942 reads)

(Other stories by Hans Bezemer)

[ Thanks to Hans Bezemer for this link. ]

"One of the advantages of combining public transport and mobile computing is that you can spend the time you're commuting on something useful (if you consider blogging to be something useful of course). I'm using LyX to write this article, but Firefox, GIMP, LaTex2RTF, ImageMagick, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Graphviz, bash, GCC and my own 4tH compiler are installed as well. And no, this is not a Linux laptop, it is a Windows XP laptop. Yes, your deduction was correct, I've been providing MS-DOS and MS-Windows versions of 4tH for as long as I can remember, it's not like Microsoft has recruited me lately. And no, it is not my laptop, it is my employers laptop. Since the Netherlands may be most retarded country in the world where Open Source is concerned it automatically comes with MS-Windows. Fortunately, I was able to install my own stuff as well, because a Windows XP laptop with MS-Office is less than useful to me..."

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I wrote about this extensively here http ...   Jack and Jill and hills   
Jose_X
Feb 20, 2008, 05:05:42
 
well said, thank you very much for beati ...   Re: Jack and Jill and hills   
sillyxone
Feb 20, 2008, 05:22:34
 
... Microsoft, obviously, because they a ...   And the answer is ...   
Rainer Weikusat
Feb 20, 2008, 10:04:41
 
>> anyway my point is: developers, cross ...   Linux is looking better and better by the day   
Jose_X
Feb 20, 2008, 22:21:08
 
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