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by WorldWideWayne 3990 days ago
If people who like Microsoft-quality tools are suffering "Stockholm Syndrome", what should we call ideologues who consistently eschew high-quality tools and interfaces for openness?

Furthermore, if you you're not trapped on Unix, what system could you easily get up and move your life and your work to?

> They probably could have ported their entire stack to open source alternatives in the time it's taken just to get our SQL Server licenses straightened out...

I bet they'd still be trying to figure out which broken front-end to use to interact with PGSQL. Then we'd see a headline like "After a 10-year Linux migration, Munich considers switching back to Windows and Office".