Re: GNUstep on MS Windows (Oh boy...i've done it now!)

[Pascal J . Bourguignon]

Calvin Mitchell writes:
> Thanks for your feedback, Roland (btw...Roland is my beloved cousin's 
> name)!
> 
> i respect the investment you've made in GNUstep on Windows.
> 
> This makes me curious...what is your company's current investment in 
> the Windows platform?
> 
> What i mean is: how many apps that run on Windows does your company 
> ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAVE to function?
> 
> Would there be any linux/*nix equivalent to these apps?
> 
> I myself ABSOLUTELY NEED my music notation software, which only runs 
> on Windows. I've managed to get it installed and running on linux 
> using the WINE project...would this be possible for any of your 
> company's critical Windows apps?
> 
> I'm not demanding that everyone on the list abandon Windows 
> development...but we should be looking for ways to INCH and WOO those 
> in the Windows world we collaborate with toward a more sound/reliable 
> platform...and perhaps GNUstep on Windows is one way to do that (hats 
> off to Dennis).

Remember  that the problem  is not  MS-Windows, it's  the monoculture.

Moving ALL MS-Windows users to Linux would not solve much. Viruses and
worms  would appear  as fast  on Linux  then.  MS-Word  and MS-Outlook
ported on Linux  would propagate as easily worms  from Linux than they
do from MS-Windows.

Whant  is needed  is a  wide enough  number of  DIFFERENT  systems and
applications. Hence the importance  of portability and common API such
as POSIX.

At the  present time, it would  be better to urge  MS-Windows users to
move to MacOSX (4.4BSD), FreeBSD or  OpenBSD, or even other OS such as
QNX.



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