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Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows



On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 14:03 -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:48:23 -0500
> Christian Convey <conveycj@npt.nuwc.navy.mil> wrote:
> 
> > Jacob S wrote:
[snip]
> As Jon Dowland said in a previous e-mail, the Linux programmers that
> have gotten us this far are doing the programming "Usually unpaid, in
> their spare time, after forking out for the device in question, without
> access to technical specs."

Not anymore.  *Many* now work for IBM, Red Hat, Novell & Sun.

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