Re: Trying `Wine'
--- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> Owen Heisler wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:53 -0500, Ron Johnson
> wrote:
> >> Owen Heisler wrote:
> >>> Surely there are better suggestions than that.
> Crossover is commercial!
> >>> $40
> >> People who install Debian also using commercial
> s/w?
> >>
> >> Oh, the horror! Quick, call RMS!!!!
> >
> > ;) I figure that someone who is using Linux and
> doesn't want to use
> > Windows would like to steer clear of most
> commercial software until all
> > open-source alternatives have been eliminated.
>
If one of your motives in using Linux is to save
money--and this is certainly a reasonable motive,
though perhaps not the most important one--you should
indeed do that. But much commercial software does run
properly using WINE.
Robert "Tim" Kopp
http://analytic.tripod.com/
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