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Not Free at Any Price
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| Teaching children to use Windows is like teaching them to smoke tobacco—in a
| world where only one company sells tobacco.
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http://www.bostonreview.net/BR33.6/stallman.php
Yay! Free drugs from Microsoft. Let's get high... jail comes later.
Related:
Microsoft to give out development tools to students
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| Using a broadband connection, students can download Visual Studio,
| Microsoft's main development tools used by professional developers, and
| Expression Studio, design software that rivals Adobe Systems Inc's Creative
| Suite offering.
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http://africa.reuters.com/business/news/usnBAN924976.html
Gates to tap young minds
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| Giving away Microsoft software also helps to ensure the next generation of
| code writers is well-versed in the Redmond, Wash., company's technology....
| Because they are minors and can't sign license agreements, high school
| students will have access to the tools only through their teachers.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_8302312
Survey: Windows loses ground with developers
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| Linux gaining share as the number of developers targeting Windows falls
| 12 percent, Evans Data says
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/02/mswindows-share_1.html
Developers' use of open source Eclipse doubles
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| The adoption rate of the open source Eclipse integrated development
| environment has more than doubled in the Europe, the Middle East and
| Africa region, industry analysts have revealed.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/12/12/220548/developers-use-of-open-source-eclipse-doubles.htm
Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
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| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
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| [...]
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| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey.
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http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515
Eclipse Is Still Going Strong
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| In the intervening years, the Eclipse open-source development
| platform has grown well beyond the IDE space, branching out into
| areas such as reporting, modeling, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript
| and XML) development, SOA (service-oriented architecture) tooling,
| RCP (rich-client platform) technology, team development, and
| support for other languages beyond Java.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061107/tc_zd/193207
Eclipse: A Billion-Dollar Baby?
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| "Historically enterprise software has been sold through [a]
| direct salesforce channel. ... We're starting to see success
| in open source software products in areas which have been
| traditionally the realm of the direct salesforce. Those
| environments or those products have very, very low cost of
| sales, so as customers get more used to that, I think that
| over time, there are going to be fewer and fewer software
| salesmen."
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/53621.html
Linux contributor base broadens
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| With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate
| 70% of the coding
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/062807-linux-contributor-base.html
Study: Developers Favor Linux
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| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
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| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766
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