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   Verily I say unto thee, that Tom Shelton spake thusly:   
      
   > I've never heard of a granny that would want to setup a builds system   
   > on windows - unless she is a developer or a build manager.  The fact   
   > that you would even suggest that a normal granny would even consider   
   > doing such a thing is completely laughable.   
      
   It's not about what people /should/ do, it's about what they /can/ do   
   more easily.   
      
   > The only reason linux systems come with build tools, is that it has   
   > been the common for software in the *nix world to be distributed in   
   > the form of source code - that is not the case on windows systems, and   
   > is likely to never be the case.   
      
   Which doesn't alter the fact of GNU/Linux having that advatage.   
      
   > In the windows world, the only people that care about building code   
   > are geeks and developers.   
      
   People in the Windows world don't care about quite a lot of other things   
   too, like security, efficiency and freedom. That's hardly a glowing   
   recommendation.   
      
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