Re: WINE, SoftWindows, and other proprietary software ports

["Greg R. Nate" <greg@cs.pdx.edu>]

<rant>

BTW, I hope everyone has gone to the petition site at
http://www.mr-hankey.w1.net/advocate/ and signed - WHETHER or not you want
it...this particlar petition, IMHO is for the good of Linux and serves a
greater importance than for any individual user.  Insignia could make a
killing off of this(they jsut need the proper 'persuasion:)) - which in
turn would further open the gates of commercial proprietary software for
Linux.

</rant>

Greg Nte


On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Erik Walthinsen wrote:

> > I don't want it if it costs $200. Although it is cheaper than
> > NT it's not cheaper than Win95. -Jeff
> 
> That's fine, it's your decision.  While Windoze98 costs "only" $100, the 
> amount of money spent with other required crap is much higher.  When's the 
> last time you ran a heavily used machine more than a few months without 
> needing some tool that runs you another $100?  If you do, let me know and 
> I'll notify the Guinness ppl, they'll want to record that.
> 
> I am reminded of the blisteringly high cost of running Windoze by the 
> trials involved in simply upgrading my parent's machine from Netscape 3.04 
> to 4.05.  Since Windoze's multi-user "support" isn't good enough, Netscape 
> designed their own system, which doesn't do what I need.  To attempt to
> solve that, I am now installing NT, and Netscape is still not cooperating, 
> so it may be several more days before I can get things working.  In the 
> meantime, I'm downloading 3.04 again.
> 
> I would *GLADLY* buy my parents a copy of it for $200-$300 if it cost that 
> much, just to be able to install Linux on the machine and LEAVE IT ALONE 
> and let it (and my parents) do actual work.
> 
> TTYL,
>     Omega
> 
> 
>      Erik Walthinsen <omega@seul.org> - SEUL Project system architect
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