I'm more interested in seeing Microsoft's loss of market share. Having commercial vendors offer something for "desktop linux users" is encouraging. Grisoft.com has their FreeAVG for linux, Nero has their software which I bought a license for, and Google has ported Picasa. Having installed and played with Picasa on my box I can say it runs quite well. It's a work in progress. That probably won't stop me from using GQview and GIMP but it's fun to have.
I'm also apt to play any commercial game that gets ported either natively or with a wrapper. The more interest shown in those products the more companies are likely to actively support you. I'll stick with my Nvidia cards and my "tainted" nvidia driver so I can enjoy my Free OS with my *gasp* applications that I paid for. Just don't ask me to spend a couple hundred $$ on a word processor. $20 on the other hand for a well developed app, I'd do it. /rant Mr O. --- Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From what I've read, google's done some good work with WINE > here -- I think > some of it comes from Summer of Code 2005, and some from their > internal > teams. > > "Picasa for Linux" bundled with WINE is not very technically > interesting to > me personally, but I'm sure the ramifications for full-time > 'doze users is > quite great. Like the "switch" campaign, which I still think > we're in the > dinosaur epoch of, just stabilized an evolutionary device. > > Big whoop -- for some. As for iTunes for linux: no thanks. > There is a > decent Java-based iTunes client which works well on linux or > other > Java-capable platforms. > > Market-share, pfft. :) If this list's membership still > carries some of its > Lane County quirks, then some of us would be disgusted to be > in the > majority. ;) Make me find a new fringe culture, will they?! > > Ben __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
