Using GPL code within proprietory code

Does the GPL allow proprietary code and GPL code happily co-exist? Do we want it to?
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Rapid Development using Graduates whilst maintaining code quality

Graduates heavily outnumber your senior developers? Get the graduates to get the code working; Get you senior developers to re-factor. Result? Rapid development of good quality code.
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Why Apple won’t make running Windows apps too easy

With Apple's release of Boot Camp, Apple's customers can now run those needed Windows applications on their beloved Apple hardware. While this is a great feature, switching back and forth between OS X and Windows is going to be painful, especially if you need to do it frequently.

An ideal solution for this type of customer, would be something like Rosetta or the Classic environment for Windows applications; basically an Apple version of Wine (or more specifically Darwine) — let's call it 'Rosetta for Windows'.

With Rosetta for Windows, customers could take any Windows application and just run it on their machine, like any native application; It (like Rosetta) would be "The most amazing software you'll never see." The problem is (in all probability) we will literally never see it.
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