-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/18/07 14:53, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I don't know much about this EU ruling on Microsoft that came out today > but I would be interested to know if it has any benefit for Linux users...
Every other situation/circumstance/event that has ever arisen that's made Linux geeks all a-quiver with excitement that this might lead to Linux On The Desktop has led to squat. Bupkus. Zilch. Nada. I see no reason for this to change any time in the next 5 (maybe 10, but that's stretching it) years. Why? There's too much of an installed base of applications that don't work *perfectly* with Crossover Office, and the web sites your kids want to go to that require Shockwave, and the banks that require ActiveX widgets. Face it: as much as we 2% who love Linux (and many of us love AMD) wish it otherwise, 5% of people think the world revolves around Cupertino, 30% thinks it revolves around Redmond, and the other 63% just want their favorite app to work. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG8DjnS9HxQb37XmcRAszYAKCgo7CtLd+R7KYu8bI4wKKlyC55vACfSD71 IqDHGSyrS0pwM86O2vteO6Y= =paFm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
