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   From: tom_shelton@comcast.invalid   
      
   chrisv explained on 12/23/2010 :   
   > Tom Shelton wrote:   
   >   
   >> It is not difficult or costly to setup a good software build   
   >> environment in windows.   
   >   
   > But not as easy as it is in Linux, which often comes with development   
   > tools by default!  From a geek's perspective, very cool.   
      
   The fact that it might be slightly easier to setup a build environment   
   on linux does not make the original proposition:   
      
      
   Windows is a much more problematic environment for building software   
   than Linux.   
      
      
   Any less bogus.  Windows is not "much more problematic"...  The hardest   
   part of the process is knowing what tools you need and where to get   
   them.  And, I think most people who might be interested in this sort of   
   thing are not going to have too much trouble finding the answer.  Nor   
   does it take a "substantial amount of money or a substantial amount of   
   effort" - about the only part of that claim that is true is that it   
   does take some knowledge.  Whether it takes a substantial amount of   
   knowledge is debatable.   
      
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   Tom Shelton   
      
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