I for one welcome our new overlords...

This will enure that software run in governents in the EU will be required NOT to use US cloud providers and only use cloud providers that are active in the EU.

There is only one programming language that actually makes the code really nice to read; hence making the code elegant: it's called Whitespace (http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/)

I understand your frustration on the topic. But I have to say that I am one of the few that actually was forced to learn Java with notepad and a standard JDK without internet. The course was difficult but it made me a very good programmer. If I was to give a course to a newcomer I would still let him at least do one assignment this way. Back to the original subject: I think that there are a large group of programmers that know how to program but are not really aware on specifics like deployment / tuning / classpath issues / CLR configuration / IIS specifics / etc. These things are taken away from you by using a good IDE and you can still be an good developer. Personally I want to excel in development and have thought myself all others specifics as well. Just my 2 cents.

or GWBASIC, using 5.000 lines.

Strange how nobody picked up the more troubling notes from the question. GIS development and .NET do not really mix that well. If the company (and you) are serious about GIS (or it is a large component) consider switching to Python or Java, or be at the (not so merciful and closed sourced) hands of ESRI. I have been developing a extremely large .NET application suite for the Dutch government for the last 5 years. It is still not working. Problems are the use of Oracle and .NET (Oracle being the biggest problem).
Tooling needed for GIS jobs works with Linux and other open source tooling. Consider PostgreSQL with PostGIS and GeoTools, GeoServer and GDAL/OGR. It's for your own sanity...

Does that mean that I can digg a hole somewhere in the streets of London (not near a base) and the police can not arrest me?

When reading binary the 1's are obviously phallus-symbols.

Not just Microsoft. Adobe does the same. In the Netherlands a DIGITAL master suite is like 3 times the price of the US version.

Never heard of etc. what does it do?

He must be talking about ReactOS... :)

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