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[Dotan Cohen]

> Weird. Perhaps they have a specific lesson to teach using such
> libraries. But without specifying the caveat, IMHO they are not taking
> the right approach to teaching.
>

It's a long story, mostly historical. That course has been taught
since before there was Linux!

> Yup, but as you are experiencing this, this is a very good education
> regarding open source tools and standards. Otherwise, all these lessons
> would never be tangibly felt. :)
>
> Finally, if the said project are not portable, being open source one can
> work to make them so. But with proprietary libs, there is no easy way to
> do this, if at all possible. So you see where all this going, right?
>

Yes. It's turning into the Debian list :)
(for those not familiar: Debian list members are very anti-proprietary software)

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