Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"
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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