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I don't believe this is the way it works.

Good programmers cost money. When a large resort company needs a system to manage their hotels, they pay programmers to do it. Along with testers, a full...

That's because it supports their core business. Intel and IBM aren't in the software industry, they're in the hardware industry. They don't do it because they believe in "free as in speech", that all...

Support they can give, but I'm pretty sure they can shift the blame to the original developers when things break. I don't know if they do, but I don't see why they wouldn't.

Right now? Ha! In most cases, you're lucky if they only wanted it three days ago. Don't worry though, you'll get a spec early next week. :rolleyes:

That's very true. When a big corporation is deciding what OS to use, the decisions are usually made by someone is isn't the most knowledgable technically. The thought process generally goes:
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What were you trying to achieve?

My XP SP2 machine has been running for 2.5 months now, and I'm running Visual Studio 2005 beta along with a host of other beta applications (so not the most...

And to prove my point MathFan, when you get your first programming gig, spend a week improving somes silly routine to make it "perfect", then show it to your manager. If they don't fire you, they'll...

MathFan - touché with the avatar comment. You are quite correct though.

It is obvious that you have a dislike from Microsoft from what you said above and from the spelling. That spelling does...

And only a 14 year old would try to debate security by spelling a Microsoft as "M$" or referring to Windows as "Windoze". Either you're a young teenager, have never worked professionall or you're an...

You spelt Microsoft as M$. Theres really no point continuing.

You have to sweat to even install something in Linux.

Also, using your school as an example - If the administrators can't crack down on Windows security, what hope would they have with Linux? The...