Re: Counterstrike on Linux
On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:28, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> On Friday 18 April 2003 17:41, Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 14:34, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > PS: Personaly I don't beleive in Wine
> >
> > Why not ?
>
> For two reasons:
> 1)
> Because of the history of OS/2. I guess if wine worked perfectly, no
> software manufacturer (Oracle, IBM ...) would have bothered to natively
> port their applications to GNU/Linux. If you were ever a OS/2 user, you
> would know what I mean. It was painfull to see that such a great OS and
> strong API existed, but that no developer was taking advantage of it.
> OS/2 showed, that being a better windows than windows, isn't the way to
> go.
>
> 2)
> I believe in free software. I guess the sole reason that I use GNU/Linux
> daily, is to get rid of those proprietary licenses. What's the point of
> running non-free software on GNU/Linux?
In that case you shouldn't be playing Counterstrike... as that is (by
the GNU definition) non-free. You don't have the source code.
Open source is a good thing, but I really don't think that it should be
the *only* thing that decides what you use.
Jon
>
> just my $0.02
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> /* Impeach God */
> --RMS
> Aryan Ameri
>
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