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“AVG: $50 for a one year subscription.
AVG logo GNU/Linux doesn’t have any wide-spread viruses. Many
viruses have been written for GNU/Linux, but, have been either made
incompatible do to a patch/update, in both GNU software and the
Linux Kernel, or in Firefox, Konqueror, etc.. And many viruses were
just to show that GNU/Linux was vulnerable to viruses, but, none of
these viruses were wide-spread or able to self-install, and some
couldn’t even be installed on purpose unless installed in
“super-user” mode known as root….

“GNU TOOLCHAIN: $600.
GCC (GNU COMPILER COLLECTION): $250.
GNU OPERATING SYSTEM: $800-$1200 – complete and using a GNU
kernel.”

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