On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:42:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Zbigniew writes: > > There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of > > them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. > > If they are gratis, why do they need to be closed-source? > That is a good point. I have emailed the authors of a few Windows-only utilities (which were closed source freeware) asking them to open source their apps. Some don't care and others are fearful of the idea of open source. It is sad but true. > > In my opinion strong standardisation of linux would help. What's the > > point for game developper to produce 70 versions of the game for all > > kinds of linuxes, only to reach 5% of population ? > > That's what LSB is for. > If it ony it were that simple :-) LSB *requires* RPM! Yuck! -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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