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rbanffy
on March 14, 2020
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Gambas: Visual Basic on Linux
Sometimes it's because someone wants to leverage the colossal investment already made in VB code and being able to run and maintain it on Linux is better than being locked to Windows anyway.
pjmlp
on March 14, 2020
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On the other hand, I have seen companies locked to specific Linux distributions, so....
rbanffy
on March 15, 2020
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That's odd. They must have done something impossibly wrong.
pjmlp
on March 15, 2020
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Yeah, like using commercial software for Linux, depending on distribution specific tools, non upgradable drivers, strange things.
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