On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:26, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:32:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 05:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > > > > Or not until wine begins running these and every windoze app that > > > > everyone uses flawlessly, which hopefully happens soon. > > > > > > > > david > > > > > > No! Emulating proprietry software is not the future for an open source > > > operating system. > > > > Unfortunately, it is until the Broderbunds and KnowledgeAdventures > > and Adobes and Quarks and Intuits and Uleads and Macromedias and > > Autodesks and FileMakers and all the other little and small s/w > > houses start making native Linux s/w. > > That would solve the emulation problem but not the proprietry problem.
As in "proprietary, closed-source apps"? Well, that depends on if you see them as a "problem", or something that you prefer not to use. I prefer not to use proprietary, closed-source apps, but, when necessary, will pay for them, and use them, even on Debian. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As the night fall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we must all be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Justice William O. Douglas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
