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Re:Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux by rbanffy on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:27PM (#22576912)
Sometimes it's because someone wants to leverage the colossal investment already made in VB code and being able to run and maintain it on Linux is better than being locked to Windows anyway.
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Re:Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux by pjmlp on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:43PM (#22577033)
On the other hand, I have seen companies locked to specific Linux distributions, so....
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Re:Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux by rbanffy on Sunday March 15, 2020 @04:17PM (#22586357)
That's odd. They must have done something impossibly wrong.
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Re:Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux by pjmlp on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:06PM (#22587243)
Yeah, like using commercial software for Linux, depending on distribution specific tools, non upgradable drivers, strange things.
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