Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

From: Jonathan Dowland (jmtd_at_compsoc.dur.ac.uk)
Date: 11/07/03

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    On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:32:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
    > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 05:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
    > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote:
    > > > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that
    > > > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon.
    > > >
    > > > david
    > >
    > > No! Emulating proprietry software is not the future for an open source
    > > operating system.
    >
    > Unfortunately, it is until the Broderbunds and KnowledgeAdventures
    > and Adobes and Quarks and Intuits and Uleads and Macromedias and
    > Autodesks and FileMakers and all the other little and small s/w
    > houses start making native Linux s/w.

    That would solve the emulation problem but not the proprietry problem. 

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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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