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Originally Posted by dfiler
"extremely". That's where you lose all credibility.
Why work in an MS world? Pragmatism.
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A true pragmatist would switch to Linux in a heartbeat.
Why did Windows beat the Macintosh for marketshare? Apply your answer to this issue and tell me what you come up with.
I believe it's just a matter of time. "Free as in beer" is a hard price point to beat. IBM supports Linux, it's taken over Wall Street brokerage houses, and when times get tough and rising costs take away from the bottom line (ring a bell?) industry will look for ways to save those millions Microsoft charges for it's software.
Edward Jones was running X Terminals when I worked there, so UNIX as a desktop OS isn't unheard of. Add it all up and Linux looks like a winner.