re: Ubuntu Linux yadda yadda...
I've yet to dabble with Linux although it wouldn't be a bad idea for a resume line in my profession. I do know that, were I to start my own business, it would only be built around Microsoft software over my dead body. In spite of the widespread acceptance of their systems, I firmly believe the economic toll that a company takes on, trying to support their faulty and expensive software when there's a huge open source world of resources out there, is just not worth the hassle.
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