Microsoft's DreamSpark ??? What a Giveaway

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Tue, 02/19/2008 - 04:57

Yesterday, Microsoft announced DreamSpark ??? an ironic name, since it actually lays bare Microsoft's worst nightmare: that more and more of tomorrow's programmers are growing up using free software for their studies, which means that as they move out into the world, there will be less and less demand for Microsoft's tools, and even fewer programs written for its platforms.

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