Comment Re:oh jeez (Score 1) 250
IBM sells z/OS which is a closed source OS with a restrictive license that says you can only run it on an IBM zMachine.
Are you telling me that I can not run the MS Office I legally bought on WINE under linux?
IBM sells z/OS which is a closed source OS with a restrictive license that says you can only run it on an IBM zMachine.
Are you telling me that I can not run the MS Office I legally bought on WINE under linux?
fascist control freaks worse than Microsoft.
I thought I would never hear that something is worse that Microsoft. Sadly, I agree.
I work at a company that every reader of slashdot would know, and we are still using XP
You, Sir, work for Microsoft, don't you?
You could argue that one difference is that Visual Studio is available to anyone prepared to pay for it.
You may be right, as the poster does not give any details. However, if we are to believe the poster, the build scripts, which in the case of VS would be the project files, are not given, and this _is_ a violation of the GPL.
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