Re: [SLUG] wine

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@nospam.barrett.com.au>]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 05:03:26PM +1000, Jon Biddell (jon@nospam.fl.net.au) wrote:
> 
> >and goddamnit, it worked like a charm (or curse, or something)
> >
> >  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~gusl/winword.jpg  (warning: big image)
> 
> Ah, it does my heart good to see Word running as the Gods intended it to....:-)


...... and Willie will smirk to in delight to see how many unix boffins trying
to run his software on Linux.


Furthermore I am actaully not convinced it WinForLinux (and all the other programs
which can run win applications on linux) will be good for linux.

Remeber OS/2. It failed (bitterly) because no one wrote applications for it
as it had an *INBUILT* windooze shell.

I dont believe it will help the cause f Linux if we continuously try to
run Win applications on Linux.

Go to the applications developpers instead and ask them to develop for
Linux, eg I just rang Lotus to tell them I would buy 22 Lotus Smartsuite
if they develop it for Linux (they know I use it as they have me on their
database but currently I have a bunch f NT machines .......).


jobst




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