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RE: Keep to programming subjects, please (nt)

Posted by Adam Debus on 1999-03-10

Why do you keep bringing this up every month? You have made your viewpoint
quite clear. Some agree with you, some don't. Stop beating a dead horse.

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> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:36:10 +0100
> From: Jaz <jaz@xxxxxxxx.xxx>
> Subject: Keep to programming subjects, please (nt)
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> Keep to programming subjects, please.
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> Exactly, and real programmers don't use Linux.
>
> *  Open source is the work of non programmers to under value them.
>    (ie Give away your source and your programs for free and now
>        you're worth dirt.  Think Pizza hut would be in business if
>        they gave their recipe away and their pizzas away for free?)
>
> *  If Linux does bring MS to quit, MS has a lot of programmers hired.
>    Those programmers have experience and they will be jobless.  That
>    will flood the market with programmers, not to mention businesses that
>    depend on MS products that would also go bankrupt, that would flood
>    the market with more programmers, and with open source, you'd
> be lucky to
>    make $2 as a programmer. Right now there are nice high rates and
>    that's the way it should be.  Programmers deserve a chunk of the
>    change since they make the world go round.  If linux came over,
>    system admins would be making all the money and most of them
>    are all dumbasses.
>
> Besides, linux/unix has the programming enviroment mixed with the user
> enviroment.  Those should be seperate cause then every idiot thinks he's
> a programmer.
>
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