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To: keithsha who wrote (49641)	9/21/2000 2:49:59 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) of 74651

I have been a Visual Studio subscriber for a number of years, but I only used it very little. I know many who subscribe to MSDN and get Visual Studio as part of it. But they don't use it. As you correctly have pointed out, developers are extremely important for platforms. The best Windows developers I know, all do Linux at home. When I teach programming, it seems that not so good programmers get up and running much easier on Linux than on Windows, because Windows is too complex for them. The more advanced programmers like Linux, because, as Linux Thorvalds pointed out in an interview: The most important design issue on Linux is.... it is meant to be fun. And it is. Windows 95 was extremely much fun when it finally surfaced. Much more fun than NT was (I don't know why), but MSFT doesn't seem to deliver the entertainment for highly qualified programmers any more. Too much business, too much marketing. It's killing the roots.

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