>>http://www.linuxdevices.com/cgi-bin/board/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=talkbacks&Post=221
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>MS is feeling the heat from Linux and have just opened themselves up to an onslaught with this article. Of course their article is heavily biased and has outright inaccuracies (ie. lies).
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>And to show you what type of "knowledgable" people wrote this, the following paragraph from their paper sums it up:
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>"There is no common integrated device electronics (IDE) for Linux. OS development is command-line driven and applications development requires a new set of tools for each device. Developers must either build their own tool-chain from piecing together Open Source tools or opt for a specific vendor's costly toolset."
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>I did not know all these years that IDE meant "integrated device electronics". And which specific vendor's tools are costlier than Microsoft's?
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>Regards,
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>Costas

You noticed that too, eh?
They must have had one of their smartest PR people working on that one! :)