Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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.

And, yes, that leads to the question, "why should we make a native
Linux version, if it works under Wine?"

To which I say, "If you build a Linux version using winelib, and
support it officially, I don't mind."

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