On 2009-01-27, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
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> ____/ Sinister Midget on Tuesday 27 January 2009 16:12 : \____
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>> On 2009-01-27, Terry Porter <linux-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
>>> One of the benefits of GNU/Linux compared to Windows is that it does not
>>> exist on the rise and fall of the sharemarket, because GNU/Linux doesnt
>>> have shares, it's a community thing, powered by Freedom.
>>>
>>> Linux will always be around, but I'm not so sure Microsoft will.
>>
>> That's right. What do you do if Windows disappears and your favorite
>> apps no longer work?
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> The Wine project already took care of this so that we can do Win "retro".
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> Some day we'll tell out children that those ".EXE" on their system* are legacy
> programs.
I hope not. I look forward to a time when the very last vestiges of the
Insane Period of computing is far enough back that nobody alive can
remember what it was really like.
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Are you scared of speed? Then try Windows.
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