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		mytailorisrich 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce relian... If governments, especially France, get involved in software development the likely outcome is that people will soon regret the days of Microsoft...

giglamesh 27 days ago [–]

The so called free market really did a bang up job didn't it? The proprietary buggy mess of Windows and the walled garden of MacOS which given its *nix underpinnings could have been really fantastically awesome but instead is a proprietary buggy mess.

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