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“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” is a line from Rudyard Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West. It could also apply to Windows and Linux. If you don’t know what you’re ...

Linus Torvalds believes that Windows doesn't deserve jokes about the Blue Screen of Death. He argues that the reasons for the ...