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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by csomar on Monday April 02, 2012 @04:23AM (#3786937)
How much does the price tag matters when you are a developer or professional that gets paid $150/hour?
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by mahmud on Monday April 02, 2012 @04:33AM (#3786965)
In the last 5 years I have spent more on Free Software donations than I have in licensing crippleware.
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by pavanky on Monday April 02, 2012 @04:26AM (#3786948)
Free as in freedom. Not free pizza.

If you are getting $150 an hour, there are better things to do with the money than flaunt it in public.

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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by orta on Monday April 02, 2012 @04:27AM (#3786951)
You're thinking free as in beer. Free as in speech means open source. As a developer you gain more from that as you can tweak/maintain your own software if needs be.
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by csomar on Monday April 02, 2012 @07:30AM (#3787507)
Wow. I'm getting quite of a down votes. I'm not opposed to Open Source software, actually I'm contributing to one of them. What I meant is that when the price tag is so small comparing to your earnings (since you are going to use the software for work), why would you make it a decision factor when picking an OS?
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Re:Poll: What is your primary operating system by dchest on Monday April 02, 2012 @08:31AM (#3787719)
You are again confusing free software, open source software, and gratis software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h...
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