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Explaining The Windows/UNIX Cultural Divide

Posted by timothy on from the it's-a-long-long-way dept.

giampy writes "Joel Spolsky writes a review-like article on the last book of Eric S. Raymond (The Art of Unix Programming). His views on the cultural differences among Windows and Unix programmers are well explained. Overall, an interesting read." Also on the topic of Windows, badriram writes "Microsoft is reorganizing the windows team, it seems the are separating the OS core development. Seems like things heading in the right direction in creating a more secure OS, and making it more business oriented. Read the article here."

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  1. They wisely avoid stories mention MS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    They'd get lost in the noise of "M$ is the 5uX0rz" modded to +5 funny.

  2. oh, no! by airdrummer · · Score: -1, Redundant

    raymond's last book? i didn't know he died;-}

  3. Generalizations by zakath · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Generalizations such as those spouted in the quoted article are always proven false when you look into them further.

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